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.
