JDB

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I watched the video that Folau posted. There is one clear reference to homosexuality. The speaker relates a lecture at Princeton at which he was warned there were going to be protesters. The protesters didn’t eventuate, but the speaker postulated that the protests would probably be about passages from St Paul, “probably about homosexuality.” I don’t equate this with hate speech.
Later the same speaker is critical of tolerance of same sex marriage.
Finally in the middle of an appeal to people to repent there is an image of the Whitehouse with a rainbow projected across it.
I can’t see the hate in these either.
So, on this basis, I am at a loss to see where the hate for gay people lies.
I know that some view opposition to same sex marriage as homophobic but I would suggest that is innacurate.
Folau’s original tweet in response to the question, “what was god’s plan for gay people?”, was “Hell… unless they repent.” Pretty blunt right?
Folau later clarified in Players Voice – a clarification that I thought fair enough given the brevity of Twitter – that, “My response to the question is what I believe God’s plan is for all sinners…” In that article he refers to himself repeatedly as a sinner as well.
Gay or straight, it is clear that he thinks we could do worse than repent or we’ll go to Hell, and he was responding to a question specifically about gay people.
So, Daniel, Folau didn’t actually say, as you and many others have reported it,
“… Folau first posted that God’s plan for gay people is “HELL”.
So, I find it extraordinary that you can write, “anyone else is entitled to call out his opinion as harmful, uninclusive, devoid of love, and possibly (probably, even?) dangerous”.
We all have the right and, perhaps duty, to call out hate speech. We sure don’t have to agree with Folau’s views and can do what so many have done and go ahead and slam them. But Folau’s posts are not hate speech. Neither the first nor this latest one which you claim is “possibly (probably, even?) dangerous.”
Clyde Rathbone’s tweet, on the other hand, borders on this when he labels Folau a “religious lunatic.”
I think you’ve done Folau a serious disservice.
Might be nice to repent after this article Daniel or who knows what is going to happen?

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