The Church of England is now grappling with the issue of homosexuality. Churches in America have been going through this struggle since the early 1980s and there has been remarkably little progress. But the Church of England's issue is complicated by proposed EU legislation flowing from the European charter on human rights. And it's also complicated by the anachronistic persistence of being an established state religion. Giles Fraser in today's Guardian billiantly sums up the case for the opposition to that of "the nine bishops".