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.
I have made his offences known far and wide. There has never been any response to what I have written and preached by those whose duty it is to safeguard the Church of Christ from error.
There has been a plethora of excuses and explanations which are utterly deceitful.
Mr Storey would claim that he is guiltless of any wrong doing in chairing the Education Authority since the guidelines it issues to schools on ‘transgenderism etc’ were laid down before he became chairman.
That ‘excuse’ actually makes him even more guilty of wrongdoing, since he is acknowledging that he accepted the chairmanship of the body promoting ‘transgenderism’ amongst schoolchildren, when he knew that such was the abominable position of the EA!
I have no doubt that the fact he receives somewhere in the region of £50,000 to £60,000 per annum as chairman of this body, had a great deal to do with his acceptance of the post and thereby, engaging in the EA’s advancement of this evil perversion!
Ballymoney Free Presbyterian Church Session has made much, as has Mervyn Storey, of its opposition to ‘transgenderism’. But how can this be while they have as an elder, the man who chairs the body promoting it amongst schoolchildren?
They have denounced the Burke family for their protest and stridently declared their Biblical view of ‘transgenderism’!
But they have not made any mention WHATEVER of their fellow elder’s wrongdoing!
They say ‘silence gives consent’!
Mr Storey has been accepted as an elder in good standing in Ballymoney despite his wishing well the ecumenical and re-union with Romanism promoter, ‘The Corrymeela Community’. Ballymoney church have endorsed his eldership when he was the means of distributing money to sodomites when he was the minister for the Department of Social Development.
Crossroads
The Free Presbyterian Church is at a crossroads! It will either return to the path to which God called it in 1951 or it will very wrongly accompany Mervyn Storey down this road of defiance of God’s Word, shielded and concealed by a profusion of deceitful excuse-making!
The ministers and elders which make up the Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church have to decide where they stand. How many are going to come out publicly against the compromise and chicanery that has surrounded this and other issues and say with Martin Luther, ‘Here I stand; I can do no other’?
My age precludes me continuing to campaign against the sad but very wicked spirit that has entered the Free Presbyterian Church, whereby its contending against the issues that demand denunciation and for which purpose the Lord raised up our church, has fallen almost completely silent.
It is up to others now to step forward and challenge this latter-day departure and preserve what God began in 1951!
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
11th August 2025