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Probe call after gay man’s Kirk trainee approval

A senior Church of Scotland minister has demanded an investigation into whether Hamilton Presbytery acted in defiance of the Kirk’s General Assembly when it approved an openly-gay former lawyer as a trainee clergyman.

The Reverend Bill Wallace, a former convenor of the Church of Scotland’s Board of Social Responsibility, has written to the Principal Clerk of the General Assembly, citing “great dismay and perplexity among many traditionalists” at the decision.