Roy Clements walks out

John Benton  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Nov 1999
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It is with great sadness that we report that Dr. Roy Clements, who resigned some months ago as minister of Eden Chapel, Cambridge, is now separated from his wife.

He had told her that he had a celibate relationship with a younger man who has acted as a research assistant for him. A very few close friends had been aware for a little while that Roy had struggled with homosexual attraction over a number of years.

All this was made known to his church at a members meeting on Monday September 13. On the following Wednesday of that week, his resignation from the Evangelical Alliance Council of Management was made known, and the next day his resignation as a director of Evangelicals Now was accepted in his absence at a scheduled directors' meeting.

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