Vaughan Roberts is a high-profile evangelical Christian leader in the UK. He is rector of St Ebbe’s Church, Oxford and president of the Proclamation Trust. He is open about his struggle with same-sex attraction.

In a press release issued in September 2012, he explains his ‘coming out’.   

‘In the preface to a new edition of my book Battles Christians Face, which features eights areas of struggle, including homosexuality, I write that, to a greater or lesser degree, I face them all myself. Close family and friends have known for a considerable time that I experience same sex attraction… My motivation for writing the preface and answering the questions in the interview in Evangelicals Now is pastoral. I believe there is value in a greater openness to talk about these issues in evangelical churches…’

The term ‘same-sex attraction’ is a euphemism to sanitise the word ‘homosexual’. The purpose is to make ‘same-sex attracted Christians’ appear to be more acceptable in church circles than ‘homosexual Christians’.  The purpose of the video Vaughan Roberts: the man revealed is to show how Roberts is seeking to normalise same-sex attraction in the Church.