"If The Church of England can say the bible is bollocks regarding men being superior to women and voting to allow female bishops, then the only thing blocking seeing gay people as equal is bigotry because they can ignore their medieval translations of fairy stories when they conflict with society's expectations if they wish."

You are getting confused again Ian, in conflating the issue of women bishops and homosexuality.....as far as I can see, the church has no problem with homosexuals as people, but sees their sexual behaviour in a negative light. Many people inside and outside the church see this behaviour as an extremely unhealthy perversion.

Personally, I am yet to be convinced, but a neighbour from Inverary(funnily enough), suggested that "if it was a perversion fifty years ago, do they do it differently now?"