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Every time he opens his mouth, I like him less and less. A quick google shows that nobody in the BLM movement is keen on burning down churches and bibles - the only link appears to be a BLM activist who tweeted that statues and stained glass showing a white Jesus should be smashed as racist propaganda and a Sun article that attempts to link four unrelated arson attacks on Catholic churches (that appear to be committed by white Protestant loonies, given they were attacking statues of Mary as "idols") with the BLM movement through those tweets. I wonder where Billy got the idea that BLM is about burning churches from?Vunipola told The Good, The Bad & The Rugby podcast: “What I saw in terms of that movement was not aligned with what I believe in. They were burning churches and bibles. I can’t support that. Even though I am a person of colour, I’m still more a person of, I guess, Jesus.”
Vunipola also expanded on his decision to support Israel Folau in April 2019 when the deeply religious former Australia full-back posted on social media that hell awaits for homosexuals. At the time Vunipola wrote “Man was made for woman to pro create that was the goal no?” prompting formal warnings from the Rugby Football Union and Saracens.
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I could easily have been, ‘I’m not going to support this’,” Vunipola said. “I didn’t sleep for two or three days after I saw his post because something inside me was saying, ‘Do you actually believe in Jesus Christ or do you not?’ That was the challenge I was battling with, not what Folau had said.
“It was something that challenged me to step up to a level I’d never been before in terms of, ‘Am I actually going to put myself in a position where people dislike me and ridicule me?’.
“I didn’t enjoy being ridiculed, I really didn’t. But at the same time what I did find comforting is that I stood up for my faith and I didn’t just fall by the wayside. (Now) I wouldn’t go about it the same way, it would be more of a conversation from my point of view. I’d talk to whoever had any questions.
“If it happened again now and I was asked, ‘Billy do you stand in support of it?’ I would have to say yes because I’ve made my position clear. The way Folau came out with it was very abrupt and direct. Sometimes the Gospel is direct.
Also Billy, when you get criticism for supporting homophobic statements about gay people going to hell, it's not because you're an oppressed minority for loving Jesus, it's because you're being a d*ck and ignoring all the "love everyone" and "judge not" and "I didn't say word one about gay people you idiot" that Jesus specifically said, in favour of some Old Testament verses.
Incidentally, rumour has it that the Vunipola brothers are not on good terms for unspecified reasons. Mako did take a knee on the weekend.
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