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@Mokey said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Virgil Born agains are seriously fucking scary. They definitely don't tend to be the 'love one another' and 'judge not lest ye be judged' types.
Yup exactly, it’s like they are trying to cram as much bible into their lives in as little amount of time as possible. They tend to go way overboard.
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@Virgil said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Mokey said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Virgil Born agains are seriously fucking scary. They definitely don't tend to be the 'love one another' and 'judge not lest ye be judged' types.
Yup exactly, it’s like they are trying to cram as much bible into their lives in as little amount of time as possible. They tend to go way overboard.
Have to wonder how much of an influence his awful wife is tooIs his wife awful? I don’t know anything about her.
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@jegga said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Virgil said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Mokey said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Virgil Born agains are seriously fucking scary. They definitely don't tend to be the 'love one another' and 'judge not lest ye be judged' types.
Yup exactly, it’s like they are trying to cram as much bible into their lives in as little amount of time as possible. They tend to go way overboard.
Have to wonder how much of an influence his awful wife is tooIs his wife awful? I don’t know anything about her.
I just don’t like her, her eyes are too close together.
She’s allowed to live in oz yet get picked for the ferns and she’s married to a bigoted homophobe.
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@jegga Maria used to be one of my favourite Ferns. She pretty much defines a confidence player. She will take a long distance shot and if it goes in she will start landing them from everywhere. Miss a couple from under the posts and she crumbles.
She always seemed to have time for her supporters and be aware of he sponsor obligations. She was also attractive enough in a pretty sort of way - enough to be a poster girl for NZ Netball at times. When Folau first came out with his mediaeval nonsense last year she publically supported him. At which time I decided she'd been corrupted by an awful Aussie and dismissed her as being an oxygen thief.
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Interesting hearing Raelene Castle stress that the game is inclusive regardless of race, gender, sexuality and religious beliefs.
There's a pretty big asterisk next to the religion part at the moment. Might need to re-think whether they include it in that? The teachings of Christianity haven't exactly been friendly to gays, and Islam in its current for is about 100 times worse.
I've never been that comfortable including religion in there, as they are just ideas that should be challenged, and I would hope freedom of speech laws would cover religious people anyway from a legal perspective.
That said, I am pretty strongly against hate speech laws as well, as they just come down to whether people are offended or not which is entirely subjective and impossible to define in any meaningful way. We should not be restricting speech unless it is directly inciting violence or defaming someone.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Interesting hearing Raelene Castle stress that the game is inclusive regardless of race, gender, sexuality and religious beliefs.
I would imagine my dreams of playing for the Australian women's rugby team would be discriminated against on the basis of at least two of those (along with talent).
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@Virgil said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@jegga said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Virgil said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Mokey said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Virgil Born agains are seriously fucking scary. They definitely don't tend to be the 'love one another' and 'judge not lest ye be judged' types.
Yup exactly, it’s like they are trying to cram as much bible into their lives in as little amount of time as possible. They tend to go way overboard.
Have to wonder how much of an influence his awful wife is tooIs his wife awful? I don’t know anything about her.
I just don’t like her, her eyes are too close together.
She’s allowed to live in oz yet get picked for the ferns and she’s married to a bigoted homophobe.
What’s to like about her...I wonder how long is attitude to gays would stay the same if she bought home one of the tidier ferns for a ménage a trois?
My guess is about a nanosecond.
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Interesting that this religion and these views have been rightly pummelled and labelled medieval nonsense, yet not a single comment about bigotry or Christianityphobia. Does that only apply to a certain other religion? I hope certain people can see the hypocrisy in all this. Bad ideas, customs and beliefs need to be challenged regardless of their origins.
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@rotated said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Interesting hearing Raelene Castle stress that the game is inclusive regardless of race, gender, sexuality and religious beliefs.
I would imagine my dreams of playing for the Australian women's rugby team would be discriminated against on the basis of at least two of those (along with talent).
Nonsense. Do a Hannah Mouncey, identify as a woman and lace up your boots.
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Aussie Rugby in general:
be funny if wifey divorces him. Just married him for the cash. Plus she gets the lambo. And has it repainted pink.
And comes out as a lesbo with a Lambo
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Aussie Rugby in general:
be funny if wifey divorces him. Just married him for the cash. Plus she gets the lambo. And has it repainted pink.
I'd imagine divorce is a deadly sin as well.
The focus is on his "anti-gay rant" but in reality anything other than breathing seems to be a sin in this guy's world.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel yeah but our only Muslim rugby player is coming out and saying 'as long as your good to others, I like you' not 'burn in hell faggot' So bringing up other religions and anti Christian stuff not entirely relevant. If SBW posts about the "Qur’an (4:16) demands unspecified punishment for men guilty of lewdness together unless they repent", then he'd lose his job too. Btw that's the only mention of homosexually being forbidden in the Qur'an, all the fundamentalist stuff from the Muslim world is based on their culture more than scripture. Your also need four eye witnesses before you could be punished, tricky one that!
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@Machpants I don’t think a reporter has actually asked SBW his opinion about gays etc , considering he hangs out with a preacher that says they are worse than animals I suspect the NZRU might have a hand in making sure that those questions aren’t being asked.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@rotated said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Interesting hearing Raelene Castle stress that the game is inclusive regardless of race, gender, sexuality and religious beliefs.
I would imagine my dreams of playing for the Australian women's rugby team would be discriminated against on the basis of at least two of those (along with talent).
Nonsense. Do a Hannah Mouncey, identify as a woman and lace up your boots.
If Izzy's twitter feed precludes him from selection I can only imagine my Fern post history would do the same.
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@Machpants said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Rancid-Schnitzel yeah but our only Muslim rugby player is coming out and saying 'as long as your good to others, I like you' not 'burn in hell faggot' So bringing up other religions and anti Christian stuff not entirely relevant.
Where on earth was this said?
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@Machpants said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Rancid-Schnitzel yeah but our only Muslim rugby player is coming out and saying 'as long as your good to others, I like you' not 'burn in hell faggot' So bringing up other religions and anti Christian stuff not entirely relevant. If SBW posts about the "Qur’an (4:16) demands unspecified punishment for men guilty of lewdness together unless they repent", then he'd lose his job too. Btw that's the only mention of homosexually being forbidden in the Qur'an, all the fundamentalist stuff from the Muslim world is based on their culture more than scripture. Your also need four eye witnesses before you could be punished, tricky one that!
That's not true at all, the fundamentalist stuff comes from not just the Koran but the Hadith as well. In this context the Hadith is most important as that is what Sharia Law is based on, which defines the punishment for homosexuals.
Don't want to derail the thread as this is not about Islam, but the "it's culture not religion" argument is badly flawed and also goes some way to excusing that religion of the scorn and criticism it deserves.
Also on SBW, he lost a BMW contract for his public support of an Imam that believes gays are worse than animals. So he's been burnt already, guess he has learnt to stay quiet.
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Yeah I don't agree with his, or any religion, they should all be banned. But foolau is not being fired because he's a bigoted religious nutter, but because he broke social media rules he signed up, and incidentally accepted millions of filthy lucre from gay supporting organisations and businesses, for. SBW may also be a bigoted religious nutter, but he still had his Jocelyn because he's filtering his employers rules he signed up to. Maybe after he tries he'll go full issues Daesh on us, I dunno having met him at welly airport, but he could.
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@No-Quarter true I was ignoring the hadith which is hearsay, but your right, I'm in error for the entire book
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