ALLEGATIONS of immorality against a Church of Scotland minister, now
serving on a Kirk study group on homosexuality, are to be considered at
the next full meeting of Falkirk Presbytery.
The Rev. Angus Wells, 32, a former associate minister at St Mungo's,
Cumbernauld, is the subject of a complaint by a Glasgow minister, the
Rev. Jim Robertson, who has delivered tapes of an alleged conversation
between Mr Wells and a rent boy to the Kirk's principal clerk to the
General Assembly.
Mr Wells was accused last June in the News of the World of having been
seen indulging in sex play with other men in Glasgow's Whiteinch
swimming baths.
Mr Wells was interviewed at the time by members of the Falkirk
Presbytery, but no action was taken because of lack of evidence.
The matter was back on the agenda at a business meeting of the
presbytery yesterday after the delivery of the tapes.
The business meeting, which lasted two hours, was held behind closed
doors. After it broke up, the presbytery clerk, the Rev. Duncan
McClements, told reporters: ''I've got no comment to make.''
He added: ''I'm sorry, that is the clear instruction of the meeting.
There will be a statement made after the presbytery meeting, but how it
will be made and when it will be made I can't tell you because I don't
know. That would be for presbytery to decide.''
Mr Wells gave up his job at St Mungo's last October to go to Oxford
University, but he has continued to serve on the Kirk's Board of Social
Responsibility study group on human sexuality, which is due to deliver
its findings on homosexuality to the General Assembly.
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