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Kirk truce "well and truly trashed" in fresh row over gay clergy

The Church of Scotland has been thrown into fresh turmoil over its controversial ban on gay ordination after a man in a civil partnership was signed up to be a trainee minister.

In a move that will reopen ­bitter divisions, the third-largest presbytery in Scotland has agreed to nominate an openly gay man to begin training as a minister.