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Extra: Israel Folau sacked

04.30.2019 - By The Age and Sydney Morning HeraldPlay

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April 4, 2018: Rugby star Israel Folau was asked by a user on Instagram what God's plan for homosexuals was. "HELL” he replied  “Unless they repent of their sins and turn to God."

Folau wasn’t bigoted or homophobic, he said, he was guided by his Christian faith.

On this Please Explain podcast extra, our chief rugby writer Georgina Robinson joins the Herald’s managing editor of sport, Ian Fuge and columnist, author and former Wallaby Peter Fitzsimons, to dissect a case that has opened up all kinds of issues.

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