I understand your viewpoint Dave but I think that just in case there’s anyone out there who might be persuaded by his dangerous beliefs, it’s important to show/report the full gamut of his beliefs, the depth to which his ignorance goes, and how easily unpicked his arguments are, and so anything he says, writes or posts anywhere should be exposed.

But homophobic religious nut says homophobic religious stuff in church and winds up on homophobic religious facebook page viewed only by homophobic religious nuts is not fucking news.

Broadcasting hateful comments to rugby fans on Instagram without any context and saying them in church and in churchy internet forums are in no way similar. We know Folau is a nutbag who hates gay people, but why pick on him and not the millions of others just like him?

It ENTIRELY comes down to context. Keeping your hateful religious bullshit behind closed doors and within the context of that community is fine. Shoving it down everyone’s throats via Instagram where most followers are rugby nuts not expecting a sermon is not fine.

And I’ve argued a similar point before on these pages from the other side. Remember when there was a dumb attempt to boycott Coopers products during the marriage equality debate? Because Coopers had funded a Christian group to make some social media videos and they did one with Tim Wilson and Andrew Hastie I think discussing pro and anti views? The boycott attempt was launched because some campaigners decided the video was not sufficiently pro-marriage-equality. They were wrong, as Rodney Croome fortunately pointed out, because they had ignored the CONTEXT. The video was posted on a Christian site and thus presented a more positive view of same sex marriage than many people viewing that site might ever have heard before. And that was a great thing, not something to boycott.

So let hateful homophobes be seen for who they are. Tell them to shut the fuck up when they spout their shit at the wrong time or in the wrong place, but simultaneously don’t give a toss what they get up to in their own little fantasy lands because they’re not worth it.