Posted on 06/30/2019 4:59:08 AM PDT by reaganaut1
SYDNEY—The firing of one of Australia’s best-known sports stars for saying gay people are headed for hell has exposed social fault lines and sparked debate about what constitutes religious expression.
Rugby Australia tore up Israel Folau’s multimillion-dollar contract last month after he posted on Instagram in April that gay people, adulterers and atheists were living in sin and would go to hell unless they repented.
The sport’s national governing body, said Mr. Folau breached its code of conduct, which calls for the respectful use of social media, and was fairly dismissed. “This is an issue of an employee and his obligations to his employers within the contract that he signed,” Rugby Australia said.
Mr. Folau, who is Christian, said he was expressing religious beliefs and is protected under federal employment law that bans dismissing an employee on the basis of religion. After an attempt at mediation at a tribunal—the first step in Australian employment disputes—failed on Friday, Mr. Folau’s representatives said they would likely sue for damages.
The outcome of such a case could set a precedent in Australia, which doesn’t have a national religious discrimination law, because the provisions covered under other laws have rarely been tested in court.
On Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government plans to work on new laws focused on religious freedom.
“I don’t want religion in Australia to be an issue of conflict,” said Mr. Morrison, who has spoken about his Christian faith, including in his successful campaign for re-election in May.
Courts elsewhere are weighing in on what counts as religious discrimination as social attitudes shift. The European Court of Human Rights supported a French ban on burqas and other full-body robes in a 2014 ruling.
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Have you noticed that celebration of "Pride Month" has been really over the top this year?
Yes.
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The Coalition of the Fringes requires intense competition to remain relevant with in it.
Hopefully he’ll win his court case.
I’m so tired of faggots and their enablers...
PBS News on Saturday evening was one huge fudge-packing queerfest celebration with the Christian moral position relegated to that of ancient barbarianism.
PBS stations should have their FCC licenses revoked.
Mary Eberstadt notes that there is a religion of sexual freedom complete with punishment for heresy, as with this article, and apostasy, as with the ban on conversion therapy. She doesn’t name this church, but I call it the Worldwide Church of Perpetuo - Omni - Copulationism. Its main tenet is that nothing may interfere with having sex with any and everyone and thing, children and animals not excepted.
PBS stations are state entities.
Governors can bring them to taw but will not
They fired him for that?
Well of course. That was probably 90% of their Board of Directors.
“for saying gay people are headed for hell”
But, they ARE!
It is one of the tenets of secular humanism, or Progressivism.
They insist, Man is god, or at least, government is god.
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