the question is Child good enough to referee in SL is a completely different question to Is Child still an SL referee because he is gay.

The latter question of course, one that no one has ever actually asked, just a case of you not reading what we actually put.

I often find those who are bigots aren't too smart.

"Gets the gigs he does".....gigs as in Leeds vs Saints on Sky.......not your "is Child a SL ref because he's gay".

So your supposition is that Child should continue to be a super league referee but not be able to referee any Super League game? Yeah, that makes you sound much smarter

I don't think you can knock anybody on being "smart"

Child hasn't displayed anything that suggests he should get such high profile games such as Friday night. Simple. For the biggest games and on TV you want the best referee, not the one that fans consistently list as one of the poorest.

but you make it so easy.

Your opinion on which referees get which games is not justification for inferring that Child is promoted beyond his competency because of his sexuality.

Where is the benefit to your assertion, neither the RFL nor Child discuss his sexuality, nobody mentions it. Other than you, nobody ever brought up his sexuality in relation to his selection for that game. Its absolutely ludicrous.

Face it, the only reason to make such an assertion was to demean him and his position through his sexuality. To infer that the gay referee didn't belong and has been shoe-horned in by a liberal agenda

It might be the only reason you can think of, that's your problem not mine.

I don't think my opinion on this fact, yet you think it's fact that their's no possible way it could be true, even though you have the same "evidence" as me.

Some people really need to learn what homophobic actually means.

One of my friends I call (to his face) my favourite faggot. Am I homophobic?

My eldest daughter’s best friend is a gay male, she calls him a lankey puff. Is she homophobic?

My gay daughter often refers to other lesbians as dirty dikes. Is she homophobic?

Maybe some of you straight guys should spend a little time with the LGBT community and understand exactly what they consider as homophobic and what they consider as acceptable banter.

its the only reason that exists and the only one which you have clarified and repeated throughout your posts.

You are going to have to try again with your last paragraph. You don't think your opinion on this fact?

James Child could be getting these games because he is secretly a lizard relative of the queen, you have exactly the same amount of evidence of that as you do that he gets them because of what he likes to do with his willy.

is in no way 'banter' I'm not sure the relevance of your post.

There may not be any relevance to the post you have quoted but try reading the entire thread.

if its regarding hardaker, I'm sure not even he would state it was banter. He said what he said in anger and frustration.

Does that make him a homophobe?

no, not at all. It means he used a homophobic insult in anger.