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The other face of Mervyn Storey!

“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God,” 2 Corinthians 4:1-2.

The following was posted by Roy Wilson on his Facebook page at around 11 pm on 12 August 2025.

When i was a DUP councillor in Ballymoney council, 2005 – 2009 new legislation was brought in to allow same sex marriage to be legalised in the borough. Mervyn was a sitting councillor as well at that time and was the DUP group leader. We always had group meetings before the monthly council meeting, but on the particular day that this law was to passed, I wasn’t told that the group meeting was changed to the middle of the day. The rest of the group decided that at the council meeting a statement would be read out saying how the DUP didn’t agree with it, but allowing it to pass.

As a born again Christian, I knew this went against everything I was taught and I also knew it would offend my saviour and Lord. The new law was going against everything God’s word proclaimed. 

So I spoke up at the council meeting, making a proposal that ” the council would not allow civil partnership marriages to take place in any government buildings nor within the borough of Ballymoney. My motion was seconded by my colleague councillor Audrey Patterson. It went to a vote and all my other DUP colleagues abstained from the vote, including Mervyn Storey.

But the unbelievable happened after the meeting when Mervyn pulled Audrey and myself aside and threatened us with the party whip, to not do anything like that again.

I made it very clear to Mervyn, I serve my master Jesus Christ first, then the party.

All this that has come out now about Mervyn doesn’t surprise me, he showed his true side to Audrey and myself. And since then the DUP has only went down a slippery slope when it comes to God’s laws

Shortly after this I resigned from bring a councillor and the party. I couldn’t stay in an organisation that sang about God on a Sunday to please people, but during the week stuck their fingers in God’s eye’s.

Peter Robinson rang me shortly after I resigned and I told him ” I wouldn’t tell the media my reason for leaving” it was simply put down as personal reasons. 

So there you have it, my real reason for leaving. And in my view, Mervyn needs to choose who he wants to serve. God or man. And Ballymoney free Presbyterian church should definitely be asking him this question. 

The country can do without Mervyn Storey, but it definitely can’t do without God, the one true God Jehovah. And He can definitely work without any politician.

Amen

The link to the post is here:

Roy Wilson 12 August 2025 Facebook post

Letter appearing in today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’

Sir,

Mr Mervyn Storey only digs the hole he is in even deeper with his attempt defence of the indefensible!!!

It is reported in your newspaper, at 6.26pm on Friday 8th August, that Mr Storey had issued a statement defending his role as chair the board of the Education Authority (EA) which in its ‘Guidance for Schools on Supporting Transgender Young People’, promotes respect for ‘a young person’s wishes and use their preferred name/pronoun in everyday interactions’, and that ‘staff should give a transgender pupil access to toilets which match their gender identity, unless there is a good reason not to do so’.

In his statement he said:—‘The suggestion that I am, or have ever been, engaged in promoting transgenderism is without any foundation in fact…’

‘For further accuracy, I would point out that the guidance referred to intended to support transgender pupils in schools was developed [in] 2019, prior to my appointment as chairperson of the board of the EA in January of this year.’

Mr Storey simply puts his foot in his mouth by that statement!

He tells us that the perverted guidance issued by the Education Authority, which aids and abets transgenderism, was in place when he accepted the position of chairman of the Board. He obviously knew then that he was taking on the leading role in a body that openly sided with transgenderism. How can he now say that there is no foundation in the criticism that he helps promote this ungodly and utterly unscriptural and unnatural notion?

One cannot hold the position of chairman of an organisation which promotes transgenderism and claim that one is not a participant in the promotion of this evil!

Mr Storey should study the allegation that the Lord levelled against the Edomites who watched the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, though took no part. “In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them,” Obadiah 1:11.

Mr Storey’s pathetic excuse will not cover or conceal his wrongdoing!!

When Mr Storey was running away and refusing to answer, he was showing a little more wisdom than he is now in offering this moronic defence!!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Kilskeery
8th August 2025

One Final Word . . . . .

The Crossroad, photo by Vladislav Babienko on Unsplash

The whole issue of Mr Mervyn Storey and his chairing of the Education Authority while that body issues evil guidelines to the state school system in Northern Ireland regarding ‘transgenderism’ and other vices such as sodomy and abortion, and its calling for a recognition of the legitimacy of that which God calls “vile affections” (Romans 1:26), and its seeking to promote such amongst school children, has been brought before the Free Presbyterian Church in a most definite and dramatic manner.

Mr Storey has long been involved in that which is quite opposed to the holy standards of God’s Word.

The Corrymeela Community

He was involved in heaping praise upon a most ungodly organisation, ‘The Corrymeela Community’ and wished the then chairman, Pádraig Ó Tuama, a Romanist and sodomite, in 2015 ‘well for 50th anniversary celebrations’, (Northern Ireland Executive website).

Money for Sodomites

He was also involved in the funding of ‘sodomite’ organisations in 2015. I quote from a ‘Burning Bush’ article published in January 2015.

‘Here is what was disclosed in an article in the Belfast Newsletter in its report of the Department of Social Development’s reply to Mr. Allister. “The answers received revealed that amongst the spend: £1,064,546.17 was spent on GAA clubs, with £273,000 spent on one club alone in Strabane, Strabane Sigerson’s Club; £1,134,100.33 was spent on Irish language groups; £138,997.78 was spent on a republican ex-prisoners group, Tar Anall; £83,176.18 was spent on the Bloody Sunday Trust; £259,087.93 was spent on Carrick Hill Residents Association; and £231,681.00 was spent on LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transexual) projects, including £170,000 to support the Strabane & Lifford LGBT group alone, and annual subventions to Belfast Pride.” (See a full news report here) We want to emphasise the fact that “£231,681.00 was spent on LGBT projects, including £170,000 to support the Strabane & Lifford LGBT group alone, and annual subventions to Belfast Pride.” While Free Presbyterians denounce and protest against the “Belfast Gay Pride” parade, Mr Storey, a Free Presbyterian elder, is engaged through his Department in funding the same wickedness!’

Mervyn Storey’s chairing of the Education Authority and thus linking himself to the Guidance for Schools, EOTAS Centres and Youth Service on supporting transgender young people is in keeping with his unscriptural stance in the past!

There has never been any action taken by his church, Ballymoney Free Presbyterian Church, where he is an elder, nor has any action ever been taken by the officers of Presbytery. (more…)