Otago Daily Times

COMMENT

- HAMISH BIDWELL

ISRAEL Folau and Rugby Australia have made their bed. We can all weigh in with a view about what ought to happen to the Wallabies fullback, but their’s is now an employment matter which a tribunal will sort out.

Where Folau’s hateful and, frankly, embarrassi­ng social media sprays have relevance is in who they were ‘‘liked’’ by.

As a very quick digression, we live in a secular society. Within that there are clearly people of faith, such as Folau, but they are in the minority.

If you and I express a view, it is our view. If that’s an unpopular view, we are judged — and in this day and age probably

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