Israel Folau’s secret meeting with the Brisbane Broncos revealed

[Foordy]

The Broncos can easily spin it by pointing at ex-cons playing for other teams or digging up some past scandal from Beattie

The Broncos wouldn't be stupid enough to challenge the NRL on this matter, it wouldn't be in their best interest (they have their own sponsors to worry about)

 

[Skathen]

If pearce can have fun with a dog, on camera, played on national news and be playing NRL, then anyone can come back. There is a path for him, he would have to make a lot of changes though, like deleting all social media and be under a total social media ban etc.

Beattie is doing this because the optics look bad, if Izzie came out in front of the cameras and apologized if he offended anyone blah blah, the NRL would take him back as the controversy would be forgotten in 12 months. Given the NRL operates with people who have faced or are facing serious criminal charges, this hardly compares.

I think he's a twit posting crap like that and refusing to take it down though, that speaks more to the problem than his pathway back from exile. Hard to have a rational conversation with the irrational.

 

[Broncapz]

Izzy thinks he is the victim at the moment, and he is surrounded by people reinforcing that perception.

Just stick to the inspirational bible bullshit, and ignore the judgy crap and you'd have been okay Izzy.

The reality is his ministry overstepped the mark (even for a lot of christians) and is just immature at best.

 

[Dazza 92]

The Broncos wouldn't be stupid enough to challenge the NRL on this matter, it wouldn't be in their best interest (they have their own sponsors to worry about)

what would our sponsors think of it is another pertinent point...

 

[broncsgoat]

Will probably end up at souths

 

[WASSHHH]

Will probably end up at souths

Bennett will “fix him”.

 

[Kimlo]

Remove the post, release some canned apology, sign him up and get him playing fullback next week.

Couldn't give two ***** about what he posts on social media, especially when he is literally just quoting the bible, it's not illegal and people need to get over themselves and learn that it's okay to disagree with someone.

Plenty more fuckwits running around today with far more reprehensible acts committed and more harmful to society.

If he wants to keep it up, sure, he's not going to get a job anywhere. If he removes it and puts on his big boy shoes and agrees to remove the controversial posts while he's employed with a public company as a public figure, then sign him up next week.

 

[Kimlo]

The problem is, he refuses to remove the post. You can’t help stupid.

Well if he wants a job in a sporting org, he's going to have to.

It's up to him, keep post up, lose millions, or touch the screen twice and get a job again. I suspect he'll wake up to reality and realise a few million in the bank is better than having a bible quote on Instagram.

 

[tommy]

Well if he wants a job in a sporting org, he's going to have to.

It's up to him, keep post up, lose millions, or touch the screen twice and get a job again. I suspect he'll wake up to reality and realise a few million in the bank is better than having a bible quote on Instagram.

He has been told by his pastor and father he is going to hell if he deletes that post.....I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

[broncsgoat]

The problem is, he refuses to remove the post. You can’t help stupid.

He shouldn't have to remove the post.

 

[broncsgoat]

Yes, he definitely should if he wants to earn money.

Why? I know its the situation he's in but it shouldn't be.

 

[Finbar]

He can tweet all he wants in a few years when he retires, surely it would be worth deleting the post so he can amass more followers by playing awesome football and then he can try to convert more people than ever!

 

[McHunt]

Two things:

One: you can squarely blame Peter Beattie for blocking him from the NRL. It's not the Broncos.

Two: he is actually pretty extreme in his hellfire preaching and now sees himself as a martyr, which is very much the Christian path. I can forsee situations where this might become tiresome in a team environment. The chance that one or more of the Broncos team is into backdoor love is fairly high.

 

[McHunt]

People mistake ‘freedom of expression’ with the freedom to look a fool; better off not opening one’s mouth and removing all doubt.

Everybody has freedoms, but they must endure the consequences of such freedoms.

I disagree with the Rugby Union's stand to ban him, and even moreso the NRL's, because this is clearly a freedom of religion issue, but I am okay with him being sacked by any employer because he causes disharmony in the workplace.

In my opinion, when you make a ruling like this, you are making a ruling against a religion. I'm pretty sure if the religion was Islam, which leans far harder into the Old Testament and is, in a word, sexist, there would be a higher level of outrage from social justice warriors.

 

[Jason Simmons]

He has been told by his pastor and father he is going to hell if he deletes that post.....I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Don’t you know that section of the bible? ‘Thou shalt literally interpret the word of god and post this on Insta or suffer in the fires of hell...’

 

[broncsgoat]

Why shouldn’t it be?

If I was to say the same thing on Social Media, I would be abruptly unemployed, too.

I think you’ll find most workplaces are exactly the same.
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where the **** do you work? People are allowed to not like gay people and express their opinion just as much as gay people are allowed to be gay and have a fucking parade.

Two things:

One: you can squarely blame Peter Beattie for blocking him from the NRL. It's not the Broncos.

Two: he is actually pretty extreme in his hellfire preaching and now sees himself as a martyr, which is very much the Christian path. I can forsee situations where this might become tiresome in a team environment. The chance that one or more of the Broncos team is into backdoor love is fairly high.


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See i think this is fucking ridiculous. Not due to religious reasoning, just because its fucking stupid. If I cared enough I'd do a post saying as much and if my employer sacked me over it I'd sue them fucking blind.

 

[Dash]

where the **** do you work? People are allowed to not like gay people and express their opinion just as much as gay people are allowed to be gay and have a fucking parade.

How are they the same thing?

For what it's worth, I would also be sacked without hesitation if I posted what Israel did.

If Folau was an anonymous employee of any old company, he wouldn't be sacked. Unfortunately for him, he is the face of Australian rugby union.

 

[McHunt]

If you want to see how much the dialogue on this subject has changed in QLD, skim through this Hansard from 1985. Search on homo, deviant, etc. JBP introduced legislation under the Liquor Act that made it illegal to serve alcohol to a "sexual deviant" and provided publicans with the discretion to eject homosexuals from their premises.

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/1985/1985_11_19.pdf

Homosexuality was illegal at the time, though no one was prosecuted for it. Unlike in many current African and Islamic countries, such as Malaysia and Uganda.