I just watched a podcast (Bolt on Sky) of Gillian Triggs saying that Folau is, in her opinion, entitled to say what he did say, and that he should not have been sacked. His sacking, she said, was “foolish and disproportionate”.

Yes. Gillian Triggs said that. How does that make the Left plonkers on OLO look!

And, on the same podcast, even though Bolt thinks that Morrison is Christmas, he cannot understand why the apparently Christian PM is “too scared” to speak up on the matter

The not the notion that religious organisations may or may not have historically dismissed or refused employment to people on the basis of their sexuality, it's the fact that they want to have that legal right inshrined in law.
Nobody else has that legal right but they specifically want it for themselves. If it worked in reverse and people were refused employment because they held a specific religious belief who would be the first to complain I wonder?

The owner of the failed "Ark Adventure" Theme Park in the USA would only employ people who professed specific religious beliefs and who were prepared to sign an agreement to that effect. It was illegal in that State but he did it anyway.

Folau-wise, if I wore a T-Shirt to work that said "Death to all Jews" I would be justly criticised but if I changed it to read "Death to all Sinners" that would somehow make it OK. Likewise if I was employed by a bakery but spent my lunch hour standing out front and telling random passers-by they were going to burn in hell for all eternity my employer would have a reasonable case for my dismissal.

When they criticise and judge people they call it "religious freedom" but as soon as anybody dares return the favour they immediately call it "religious repression".

tbbn, Some Muslim societies kill homosexuals because it's what the Old Testament demands. Folau is responding to the same texts so what's the difference? For centuries Christians used to keep slaves and burn witches too and didn't stop because the Bible told them to.

Rache,

Folau was not standing outside RA stadiums ranting against sinners. He answered a question by posting a quote from the bible on his personal twitter account.

So we still have no one that was definitively sacked from private schools for being gay, yet we definitely have someone sacked for quoting scripture.

Folau's warchest is now $2.2m

Well as a left plonker may I remind our foolish stone thrower I stood by his right to say as he wished
While the sarga has in part changed my mind, he could have both spoken of his belief and not bought the roof down on his head
In matters of religion we, evenme a nonbeliever, should have the right to our opinion
But would my thoughts be welcome in say hillsong?

"But would my thoughts be welcome in say hillsong?"

Only if you sang them!!

Dear diver dan,

While I think your position on gay people is deplorable I have earlier raised concerns about the power of sponsoring businesses have within our sporting codes. That the Australian team is so reliant on this source to fund themselves gives the contributors far too much say.

Dear Shadow Minister,

I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Twitter post which got him into trouble but rather an instagram one.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-11/israel-folau-slammed-over-latest-anti-gay-comments/10991574

Notice the scripture he quotes to support his condemnation actually doesn't include homosexuals.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21

One of the hurdles Falou will have to overcome is this statement from him;

"After we'd all talked, I told Raelene if she felt the situation had become untenable — that I was hurting Rugby Australia, its sponsors and the Australian rugby community to such a degree that things couldn't be worked through — I would walk away from my contract, immediately.”

Is this only a promise or is it a legally enforceable undertaking?