Presbyterian church accused of singling out LGBT people

When contacted by BBC News NI, Rev Dr Meyer gave a statement in response confirming she had resigned.

“It has become impossible for me to cooperate any further with the enquiry and disciplinary processes to which I have been subjected and which, in my experience, have been so flawed and destructive,” she said.

“Over recent years, a series of complaints have been lodged against me, resulting in a number of disciplinary actions.

“The particular claim which has been the common theme of these acts of discipline, as best as I can determine, is that by my teaching and actions I have disrupted the peace and unity of the Church.

“And further, that following censure, I failed to seek to preserve that peace and unity.”

Rev Dr Meyer said that “precisely how [she] did this was never clearly stated but assumed”.

She said the trigger for the complaints seemed to have been her “pastoral support for members of the LGBTQ+ community and [her] appearance in public in their company, although this was never specifically stated”.