The BBC reports:
John Reaney took the Hereford diocesan board of finance to an employment tribunal after his appointment as a youth worker was blocked. Bishop of Hereford Anthony Priddis has apologised and gay rights group Stonewall said the "substantial compensation" sent a clear message . . .
In his evidence to the original tribunal, Bishop Priddis said anyone in a sexual relationship outside marriage would have been rejected . However the tribunal last month ruled Mr Reaney, who now lives in Cardiff, had been discriminated against "on the grounds of sexual orientation" . . .
The award is made up of £7,000 damages for psychiatric injury, £6,000 for injury to feelings, £25 for costs incurred in seeking work, £1,320 cost of counselling, £25,000 for future loss of wages and £8,000 for future pension loss.
ADF President Alan Sears and Vice-President Craig Osten predicted this problem several years ago: The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today
