New Zealand Catholic Church spokeswoman blasts athlete quoting St. Paul against sodomy

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New Zealand Catholic Church spokeswoman blasts athlete quoting St. Paul against sodomy

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― A Catholic Church spokeswoman has expressed regret for a rugby player’s presentation on Instagram of St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.

Dame Lyndsay Freer, spokeswoman for New Zealand’s Catholic Diocese of Auckland, told the New Zealand Herald she was sorry about a recent social posting made by Christian Australian rugby star Israel Folau. Dame Lyndsay declared that “Christianity is all about Jesus Christ. There’s very little hate speech in anything he ever said.”

Folau, who belongs to the Pentecostal tradition, published a poster on Instagram last week reading, “Warning: Drunks, Homosexuals, Adulterers, Liars, Fornicators, Thieves, Atheists, Idolators, Hell Awaits You. Repent! Only Jesus Saves.” Beside the image, he added “Those that are living in Sin will end up in hell unless you repent. Jesus Christ loves you and is giving you time to turn away from your sin and come to him.”

The Tongan-Australian athlete then quoted Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, 5:19–21, writing, “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

This was not an unusual message for Folau, who has used social media many times before to share his Christian faith. However, St. Paul’s strictures against homosexual relations have landed the athlete in hot water before and this time may have ended his career. Both his team, NSW Warratahs, and Rugby Australia have indicated that they intend “to terminate his contract.”

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