Christian campaigners urged the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to “confirm that it is willing to engage players who agree with this view about marriage” following disciplinary action against Billy Vunipola.
Mr Vunipola was sanctioned earlier this month after he defended comments made by fellow Christian rugby star Israel Folau, who said “hell awaits” homosexuals unless they repents.
The Saracens player wrote about Folau: “What he’s saying isn’t that he doesn’t like or love those people. He’s saying how we live our lives needs to be closer to how God intended them to be.
“Man was made for woman to pro create. That was the goal, no?”
In a letter to the RFU, director of the Christian Institute, Colin Hart said the belief that sex is only for heterosexual marriage was “worthy of respect in a democratic society”.
Vunipola “holds to the Easter message of hope that sins can be forgiven through trusting in Christ’s death on the cross and his resurrection from the dead”.https://t.co/BbRDhLqzZu
— The Christian Institute (@christianorguk) April 23, 2019
The note, addressed to head of discipline at the RFU, said: “Vunipola believes himself to have fallen short of God’s standards.
“He holds to mainstream Christian teaching that ‘all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’ (Romans 3:23).
“He holds to the Easter message of hope that sins can be forgiven through trusting in…
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