Gay priests' lovers to get pensions

Telegraph
By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
(Filed: 16/02/2005)

The Church of England is to grant partners of homosexual clergy who have registered under the Government's new civil partnership scheme the same pension rights as clergy spouses.

The disclosure, made at the General Synod last night, could prove an embarrassment to the bishops because sexually active homosexuals are theoretically barred from the priesthood.

Only a few homosexual clergy have so far risked facing censure by publicly declaring that they are living in same-sex unions, but the prospect of gaining pension rights for their partners may prove an incentive for many more to "come out".
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of the un-gay?

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Strike that.
I suppose they will just have to get married.

Ah, the lovely gift of understatement the British have bequeathed to the world! How odd that even in the rarified atmosphere of the Church of England, money still talks . . .

There are celibate homosexual couples. I have met gay priests who have no sexual relations.