Sort of ties in with the brouhaha we have in the UK at the moment - the Bishop of Oxford has just appointed an openly gay (although by admission celebate, despite living with a partner for 27 years) Bishop to the see of Reading.
Personally, I think the Church of England is so short of decent bishops that anyone, male, female, part goat, Martian, gay, straight, celebate, or at it like rabbits, should be given a chance to take on the task. The judgement should be on what the man does, not what he is. Besides, with the amount of gay and lesbian priests in holy orders at the moment, it was only a matter of time before one of them, out or not, acheived a position of this elevation.
I know that the Bible teaches us that it is wrong to have sexual relations with the same sex, but it also teaches us it's wrong to covet, murder, steal, eat pork, not wear a hat (male), cut our hair (female), get married, not get married or suffer a witch to live - who's going to start enforcing all that?!