Church Of England: Still Bonkers After All These Years

"A gentlemen's outfitter is not required to supply women's clothes. A children's bookshop is not required to stock books that are intended for adults.
"And a church that provides a facility to marry is not required to provide a facility to same-sex couples for registering civil partnerships."

From a statement by the Church of England's legal office on their decision that they doesn't want to allow civil partnerships ceremonies to be held in their churches.
According to BBC Radio 4 News the practice of applying to the General Synod would be "so time-consuming it would in practice be impossible" to hold them...