What kind of special madness is this?
Rugby league: Three Sea Eagles players reportedly backflip on pride jersey boycott
A trio of Manly Sea Eagles footballers have reportedly backflipped on their decision to boycott the club’s pride jersey for this week’s NRL match against the Sydney Roosters.
Seven players sensationally stood down after the club announced the pride jersey – featuring rainbow stripes and trim – would be worn as a one-off this week.
Jason Saab, Josh Schuster, Haumole Olakau’atu, Tolutau Koula and New Zealanders Josh Aloiai, Toafofoa Sipley and Christian Tuipulotu were reportedly opposed to wearing the jersey due to their religious beliefs.
But after Manly held an emergency meeting with the players in question on Monday evening, at least three Manly footballers have changed their mind and are now considering wearing the pride jersey this weekend, according to 7News.
Ok, firstly it seems eye rolling that they didn’t clear this with their very religious players, like it or not, there is a a huge chunk of players who are religious and getting them on side voluntarily seems more important than forcing them to.
That aside, I have very little time for people who believe in a magical flying invisible wizard for their day to day decisions, especially when those people don’t seem to understand their own religion.
Where do these religious Rugby boofheads get off drawing the line at rainbow inclusivity as the thing that angers their God when the bloody jersey is a walking poster for Gambling?
Here’s the bible on Homosexuality…
(Leviticus 18:22, 20:13) “man must not lie with man”
Here’s the bible on Gambling…
Mark 8:36 (NKJV), “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”
Hebrews 13:5 (ESV), “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.'”
Ecclesiastes 5:10 (NASB), “He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity.”
Luke 12:15 (NKJV), “And He said to them, ‘Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.’”
…there’s barely any mention against homosexuality in the Bible but shit loads about allowing money to over take your existence.
Watching religious rugby players justify not wearing a pride jersey for a game while wearing a gambling jersey every other game seems a tad twee.
I like God, I can’t stand his fucking followers.
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Can we just do away with the corporate pride shit? Its as offensive as the god bothering shit. Its all just woo woo and corporate money making bullshit. Never mind the kids that end up sterilized in the wrong body cause woo woo.
Have you not read the book of capitalism? There is no alternative.
Agree, Capitalism will infect every system or belief and pevert it to its never ending cycle.
I bet he hasn’t. Oh fuck, sacrilege, that’s gambling. Oh fuck I swore, sorry father, or gandalf or which ever imaginary flying wizard I pray too.
100% Reactionary B.
Corporate virtual signalling.
I would object to being forced to wear a Pride tee shirt, because I strongly object to gender ideology.
WTF are you on about?
Quite frankly, these bible bashers should find another team to play for if they hate Pride so much because a dead Palestinian carpenter told them to. I would have fired them long ago if it was up to me. Homophobia has no place in sport.
Nice to find we have common ground on this matter
“I prefer cats to dogs”
Millsy – “So what you’re saying is that we should slaughter all dogs!”
I think it was a Jewish carpenter. Palestine is about 1500 years later
The really funny thing is that some of these religious freaks are closet Homos anyway. A little bit like some of the league players that hang around Wynnum in Breezie getting their miniscule deeks sucked. (Apparently in their minds, they’re not Homos if they take the top bunk).
Pfffft. Next. I really couldn’t give a stuff if they fuck chickens – which they probably do
Sorry Millsy – I thought these guys were rugby league players not thought leaders – am I wrong?
I’m impressed with your Biblical scholarship, Martyn
Me to. Martyn is a true biblical scholar I am impressed he knows the good book LOL.
@Jono BibleGateway.com is a great source of instant Biblical wisdom 😉 I use it all the time
Boycott is the lowest form of protest. The rest of Australia is doing well. Queensland teachers earn an average of $130k thanks to The State Government. That’s not for principles or other seat warmers. That’s for all teachers. No one will care of you destroy your own career.
Why do they need to use their religion as a reason to not wear the colours on their jerseys….Why can’t they just say they don’t want to wear the colours…..Do they not have a choice now….It’s only a rugby jersey…It’s only a game..
I don’t know the beliefs of all those not wanting to wear the jersey however the Christian thing could be a red herring for some of these guys as most likely they believe in drinking and gambling so no problem there. If they don’t openly support the jersey idea it doesn’t make them homophobic does it? It just means they personally would rather not wear the jersey. I personally don’t give a fuck whether someone is gay or not but I’m not supporting them by joining a pride parade and to me there’s not much difference. Dumb fuck RL should just get on and play the game instead of making all their players gay supporters. The truly Christian guy’s are being hypocritical when looking at the other advertising.
New view 100%
My work place has a pride day and we are expected to buy and wear a pink or rainbow pride shirt, supplied buy our pride mafia. I have no intention of spending my money on buying one. I’m lucky I can get away with it, I’m a chubby middle aged white guy.
A young woman in my team spends all her pay to feed her young family. She gets questioned about WHY she’s not wearing the shirt and is questioned about her support for pride issues. Can you imagine her embarrassment when she is forced to explain that she can’t afford the money. But its ok the pride representative offered to lend her the money…
Perhaps you should find somewhere else to work if you hate working with LGBT ‘sodomites’.
I think those passages relate to money in general. Isn’t it inconvenient for all those loaded people that profess to have Christian faith. Clearly they pick and choose what parts of the bible suit their narrative. Much like the New versus Old Testament. Clearly some books were not helpful to those in charge.
Amen to that.
Too true Wheel.
I HATE religious people, they tend to kill their children in the name of a sky fairy, a fairy that a word they are scared of, and also a rainbow after rain brings beatings on to the HOMOPHOBES children
You hate religious people? Does that hate extend to those religious people murdered in their place of worship in Christchurch?
Can we do Islam and Hinduism next please or are we still just persecuting Christians? Not all Christian’s are anti gay.
This is just old religion which has its bigotry but also it’s forgiveness and love of its fellow man, vs the new religion of “progressive” liberalism and the woke diversity industry which has its bigotry and none of the forgiveness or love of it’s fellow man.
Which camp should a sane non religious human back?
The irony.
Men only.
In close intimate contact. Playing with ball(s), and wearing little clothing.
All inpublic view!
Whats da problem?
AAHAAAA delicious irony indeed Tane/Male/Man, not Female/Woman – and the more so when it’s clear that those who “caved’ will have done so because their religious “principles” risked losing them money.
I can understand the players not happy to be used as a political football (excuse the pun).
Pride, like BLM, like gender equality or climate change for that matter, is now highly politicised.
I see some have ‘caved’ which is code for, given in to the media outage and cancel culture that they know are sharpening the pitchforks as we speak.
Groupthink and identity politics is a cancer that is destroying the individual.
Amen, why should players be forced to bend the knee to what ever latest cause their corporate masters want to virtue signal about this week? Good on them for having the guts to say no to this meaningless corporate pink-washing.
Agree, whatever they believe or think is ok with me. Freedom of expression for the win!
They have the right to their own opinion and dont have to justify themselves. Its noone elses’ business what they think.
He who pays the piper calls the tune .If you do not want to do what your boss asks of you you can walk or say I will have the week off as unpaid leave .
Your politics should be seperate from your work. If you dont want to wear a black shirt or a pink shirt because you dont agree with the politics of the shirt statement surely thats your right of free speech and if the boss punishes you that is a form of discrimination/political persecution.
Also why would a bunch of het ruggerheads want to wear pink? Isnt that gay cultural appropriation! 😉
Because they don’t own the club and pay their own big salaries. if they want to make,the rules then buy the club.
Exclamation Mark – 100%. Freedom of expression shouldn’t be controlled by social manipulators or by govt sponsored centres of extremist excellence.
Agree BG
@BG small correction, modern identity politics is about equity not equality.
When ever I see fellows standing tall looking grimly staunch, I think constipation.
Bran boys… bran. Pray to Jesus and bran, bran, bran.
“Noooooooooooooo! Not a multi colored stripe on my ball fondling shirt! How will I ever be perceived as a man again.”
Grow up idiots, protest by quitting or playing naked, not whining.
It’s really ignorant to think all gay people belong to the “Gay/Rainbow Community” and support the “Pride Movement”!!
Most do NOT want anything to do with it, let alone be DEFIND by it! Gay bars, dating apps and bathhouses are hotbeds for drugs, alcohol and risky sex.
There is a celebration of multiple/mass sexual partners, the inhalation and popularization of amyl-nitrate and meth as sex enhancers. The exploitation and sexualization of young gay males is rife. Unprotected sex is viewed as a fetish.
Vapid obsession with materialism is rife and many sexual practices/fetishes are promoted which denigrate (especially youth) over time.
I WON’T GO ON.
So if they DO NOT want to wear a “Pride Shirt”, they should NOT be forced to – the vast majority of same-sex-attracted people agree!
Martyn, those biblical texts do not specifically mention gambling, which involves putting down stake money, making a bet or wager, and either losing your stake or making a profitable win. None of that is mentioned;
The texts given all warn against making money your major concern in life.
Gambling can be such a healthy pleasure, as long as money is not your major concern!
I bet gambling isn’t a healthy pleasure for some people.
I see what you did there Mike.
If an individual player wants to support Pride or BLM go for it. Being coerced to support a cause by your employer isn’t on
Ryan Bridge seems to have the only adult response to this.
Why does everything have to have a pride week/exhibition/celebration?
Why do we still give a shit about people’s sexuality?
Another woke corporate brain fart.
FFS there are days which I really hope climate change takes out the West and its surrogates……
I suggested at work, that I’m now waiting on a footy team wearing a pacific island jersey in support of the island’s devastated by the volcano erupting in Tonga. Or how about one supporting the aboriginal peoples.
Didn’t go down well with a couple of woke middle class whites, so I asked why brown people are only considered when we are good at footy, or when china wants to build a military base on our island.
These same white people come to our islands for a holiday, looking to get drunk do drugs and have sex with our young ones and give them diseases. The disrespect us and then have a cry when they get in trouble.
just make the team strip pink shirt and pink shorts….give the overpaid muscleheads something to cry about
Martyn, I wonder if you might have Christian Derangement Syndrome. Would you react the same way if the refuseniks had been Muslims?
But frankly I’m disappointed their less religious teammates were so compliant. Why should footy players have to be walking adverts for radical gender ideology?
Woke corporate pinkwash bullshit.
“Would you react the same way if the refuseniks had been Muslims?”
Not without risking a death-threat fatwa.
Pope Punctilious 11. Yes sir. Why should anybody have to be adverts for radical gender ideology ?
This is woke gone mad, and Hercules help us all when it becomes corporatised, or worse still politicised.
irony is wasted on these players.
the fact they play for a club that is sponsored by one largest and most predatory online betting agencies, and that club has a long history of corrupt and illegal financial practices, and many off field scandals, including gang rape, seems to have gone right over their heads.
but hey, i can see in the future that sporting contracts with these players will be worded very carefully. and boy, they better not fuck uo off field, ’cause damn do the Australian sporting press love to beat on folks with different world views of the sports writers.
Those seven players should be sacked. Their boss, the club owner, said this is what we are wearing and they say no?!!! They can keep their personal views to themselves as long as they represent that club for big money. Sack em!
” …there’s barely any mention against homosexuality in the Bible but shit loads about allowing money to over take your existence ”
Bomber superb point here.
True, but as I said above, the texts mentioned do not advise against the practice of gambling specifically – only against making money an obsession.
But Jesus said of gambling…
“My temple should be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves”.
Jesus Christ Superstar the movie!
Sounds like the NRL.
I have lots of gay friends (winks, who dear me dear yes dear)
However I’m not into all this pinkwashing. It all sounds of bullying and compliance to me.
Didn’t homosexuality used to be the “edgy” thing to do?
Also, didn’t SBW refuse to wear a shirt because of his Muslim beliefs on banking and interest loans?
yes. his management had to organise a modified shirt. and yes, it was written in his contract.
Even the petrol heads (and I follow the V8 series) over at Repco V8 Supercars had an indigenous round at Darwin recently where all the car wraps incorporated indigenous art and design work and various functions and displays were incorporated into the weekend entertainment.
For any League or other professional sports team to allow “poofter bashing” in 2022 is just not on.
Religion is colonization.
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