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The government is being forced by the European commission to rip up controversial exemptions that allow church bodies to refuse to employ homosexual staff.
It has emerged that the commission wrote to the government last week raising concerns that the UK had incorrectly implemented an EU directive prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of a person's sexual orientation.
The commission's lawyers inform the government that its
"exceptions to the principle of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for religious employers are broader than that permitted by the directive".
The authoritarian move means that the government now has no choice but to redraft anti-discrimination laws, which is likely to prompt a furore among church groups...
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