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| Quote: lefty goldblatt "I think a little context is required, from ALL parts of society.
Folau. Terminally stupid. Not once, not twice, but THREE times. If he has these beliefs, then that's HIS affair. If he's stupid enough to air these views in public, in this day and age, where some people are "queueing up" to be offended, then he's just underlined his stupidity. Folau, is like a lot of other "social media users"..... an attention seeker. He's certainly done that, and it's (more than likely), going to cost him his livelihood. Plonker.
Religion. Deary me. People live their lives through this!
I know people who'll be sat in a pew, in a couple of hours time, and they're some of the most two faced, hypocritical Muppets, you' ll ever see. Just because they prey, they think they're absolved of all their "nasty" deeds. Deluded.
Personally, I think it's nice to have a faith/belief (I don't practice, though), but RELIGION? Just look at the state of the planet. Across the Irish Sea, and even more stupidly, those whoppers who "support" Rangers and Celtic, are acting it out by proxy, in a different country. Fools. Nothing good comes of religion.
Touching on Folau's recent WHOLE quote. He also condemns (as well as homosexuals, this is the crux of his potential banning)
a) drunks. Last night was a Saturday. I dare say a good proportion of the planet had "a bit too much to drink". Nowt down for them.
b) adulterers. So that's Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Tiger Woods and the fella who plays Ken Barlow, etc, going "downstairs", then.
c) Athiests. An ever growing number
d) Liars. That's most of the planet, then
e) Fornicators... Ooh err, Missus
f) Theives. Well, they deserve it
Great post but as you pointed out earlier some people will be queuing up to whine, with the advent of social media on the internet because social media as been around in other forms forever it’s gotten out of hand. Shows like the comedians( Englishman,Irishman Scotsman jokes) Jim Davidson with his Sambo routine, love thy neighbour and classic in sickness and health not a chance these shows would ever be made now. Freedom of speech is no longer a thing because someone will always be offended it’s the new thing.
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| Criticise someone's religion in a different context & you become a racist bigot ,even though race has nothing to do with it . ![PRAY icon_razz.gifRAY:](images/smilies//eusa_pray.gif)
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| Quote: wire-flyer "Beat up a student, drink and drive or take performance enhancing drugs
One man's "post something silly" is another man's "hate speech".
This is his 2nd offence after receiving a previous warning. He has not received a lifetime ban, he has had his Sport Australia contract terminated. The NRL have said he has failed the character test and will not be registered.
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| Quote: Quickening "I think it is a slippery slope when people are having their careers taken away because they parrot their religious beliefs.'"
It's really not at all. For me it's okay to believe in religion, it's okay to believe that gays are going to hell. What isn't okay is being a professional employed by a big sporting organisation and sharing those views to millions of people on Twitter. If I did that on my Linkedin and my work saw that, I'd be going to be job centre pronto. I'll bet a lot of South Sea Islander RL players and a lot of Muslims and a lot of devout Christians share Folou's beliefs and agree with him, but those with an ounce of decency and societal awareness would refrain from sharing those beliefs in public.
What this shows is that Super League as an organisation needs to develop a code of principal like the NRL has and stick to it. People with dubious pasts in terms of drugs or criminality should be interviewed at length to ascertain their level of sincerity in being better people now and their contracts should have ultra tight clauses that enable the club to end them if they break the code of conduct. There should also be minimum standards applied in areas such as domestic violence, sexual crimes and hate related areas where sometimes they just say no to a player based on his history like the NRL do. SL doesn't need any negative press at the moment and signing Folou would be a disaster for the competition, despite how good a player he once was.
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| If superleague & the RFL went through the players rosters with a fine tooth comb our available pool of players would be much less than it is now & how many generations would our international selectors have to go back to find lesser quality antipodeans to join our home squads through ancestral qualification ?
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| We have had a complaint about this thread. its a contentious set of topics that have been raised, mostly I would have to say with a calm and considered view by the contributing posters. However some of the remarks have clearly been taken as being offensive and since I think the thread has probably run its course anyway, I am locking it.
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