Posted: Apr 15, 2019 1:17 pm
Spearthrower wrote:WARNING
Drunks, Homosexuals, Adulterers, Liars, Fornicators, Thieves, Atheists and Idolaters,
Hell awaits you.
REPENT!
ONLY JESUS SAVESBlackadder wrote: Yet I am uneasy with punishing people for expressing their views.
I struggle to think of any job where you could make such statements and still retain your job.
He's got a national platform precisely because of his status in the sport. As such, if he misuses that status, particularly after having been officially warned and having signed a contract assuring he will not engage in this, then he's only got himself to blame. His freedom of speech is not being infringed on: instead the reality is that he needs to learn that freedom of speech does not equate to freedom from consequences of that speech.
Good riddance: Australia deserves and is better.
was basically what I was getting at, but ST has managed to phrase it more eloquently and to the point.