Australian rugby star Isreal Folau has reached a financial settlement with his former employer after his contract was terminated over an Instagram post with a biblical message.

Folau argued his termination was an example of religious discrimination and initially filed a lawsuit against Rugby Australia and Rugby NSW for nearly $10 million, but raised the amount to $14 million last week, according to The Guardian.

After months of legal battle, Rugby Australia, Rugby NSW and Folau released a joint statement on Wednesday saying that they had come to an undisclosed agreement including apologies from both parties.

The Instagram post at the center of the controversy was posted on April 10 and paraphrased 1 Corinthians 6:9.

“WARNING,” the post read. “Drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists, idolaters, HELL AWAITS YOU REPENT! ONLY JESUS SAVES.”

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The former Wallabies player commented with three other bible verses as well.

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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. _______________ 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, revelings, 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.
Galatians 5:19‭-‬21 KJV _______________ Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:38 KJV _______________ And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Acts 17:30 KJV _______________

A post shared by Israel Folau (@izzyfolau) on Apr 10, 2019 at 1:18am PDT

His playing contract was terminated only a few weeks later, just ahead of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Rugby Australia claimed Folau “had committed a high-level breach of the Professional Players’ Code of Conduct warranting termination of his employment contract” by sharing the post, according to Faith Wire.

The organization also said that it had warned him of posting offensive content on social media.

Folau, however, doesn’t view his post as offensive. He wrote on his website that he views sharing truths from the Bible as “an act of love and compassion.”

“My faith defines me as a person. I do not believe that it is fair or right that I be punished for my religious beliefs,” he continued.

“I believe the termination of my contract is unlawful, which is why I have started legal proceedings against Rugby Australia and Rugby NSW.”

After months of public dispute, the parties agreed upon an undisclosed financial settlement and released a joint statement on Wednesday.

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“Mr Folau wants all Australians to know that he does not condone discrimination of any kind against any person on the grounds of their sexuality and that he shares Rugby Australia’s commitment to inclusiveness and diversity,” the statement said, according to The Guardian.

The statement also said that the April post reflected Folau’s “genuinely held religious beliefs” and that he didn’t intend any harm or offense.

Rubgy Australia also apologized to Folau and his family.

“While it was not Rugby Australia’s intention, Rugby Australia acknowledges and apologises for any hurt or harm caused to the Folaus,” the statement said.

“Similarly, Mr Folau did not intend to hurt or harm the game of rugby and acknowledges and apologises for any hurt or harm caused.”

Folau later shared a video on his website where he said he felt “vindicated” after reaching an agreement with his former employers.

“We are extremely pleased with the settlement reached today,” he said.“With today’s acknowledgment and apology by Rugby Australia we have been vindicated and can now move on with our lives to focus on our faith and our family.”

He thanked God for his “guidance and strength” and thanked supporters “for their thoughts and prayers.”

“We started this journey on behalf of all people of faith to protect their rights of freedom of speech and religion,” Folau concluded.

“We now look forward to the federal government enacting the legislation necessary to further protect and strengthen these rights for all Australians.”

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Richard Jewell, the film, is a perfect analogy for what the FBI and DOJ have done to President Trump, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and the American people.

Clint Eastwood’s new film is the true story of how the FBI destroyed the lives of Richard Jewell and his mother after the 1996 bombing at Centennial Park in Atlanta during the summer Olympics.  Jewell was a security guard at the park who noticed an unattended backpack under a bench.  He alerted other police on the scene who determined it was indeed a bomb.  Jewell and the other police immediately began moving people away from the scene.  The bomb did explode; two people were killed and many were injured but Jewell’s actions saved many lives.  

For a few days he was a hero but then the FBI began to focus on Jewell as the perpetrator because he “fit the profile.”  He lived with his mother, wanted to be a policeman, and had lost several security jobs for various reasons, including once for impersonating a police officer.  That is all they had, all they needed; not a shred of real evidence beyond their conviction that he must be guilty because he fit the profile.   

And based on the FBI’s certainty that he was guilty, an inelegant leak to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter, the media mob ran with the story in the cruelest of ways.   There is a scene in the film in which a room full of reporters at the AJC are laughing and applauding three days after the bombing because they were the paper to first print the news that the FBI was focusing on Jewell.   If this scene is an accurate representation, then journalists are even more cold-blooded than previously known.  It appears they can easily revel in a tragedy if they are first to report it.

It is a heart-wrenching film on every level. It is also a perfect analogy for what our current federal law enforcement agencies have done to President Trump, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and numerous others if they were in any way useful for their desired ends.  The FBI agents in the film skirt the law over and over again in their zeal to indict Jewell.  They lie, trick, bug his home without a warrant, invade his apartment and nearly strip it bare.  They attempt to entrap him over and over again.  

Watching the film, it is impossible not to think that this is exactly what the FBI under Obama did to Flynn, Page, et. al.  The only difference is that the agents in the film torture Jewell because they mistakenly concluded that he must be guilty even though they had no evidence; no trace evidence; nothing connected Jewell to the crime.  The FBI agents who persecuted Flynn, Page and Papadopoulos knew up front that none of them were guilty of anything.  They were just pawns in the plot to frame candidate Trump in order to ensure that Hillary won.  What they did was not only despicable, it was blatantly unconstitutional.  

Once Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel, they doubled-down on their evil plan.  The IG report has confirmed what millions of us have known for at least two years, that the Steele dossier was a ridiculous hoax from the outset, a collection on nonsense paid for by Hillary Clinton.   

All those craven television journalists who swore it had been confirmed and corroborated  owe their viewers a thousand apologies.  It is quite likely that none of them asserting its truthfulness had bothered to read it.  If they had, one would assume even they would have realized it was just “bar talk” as the IG report relates what the sub-source called it.  Our media have learned nothing since the Olympic bombing fiasco; not one thing. 

The villains in the film, aside from the actual bomber who was caught six years later, are the FBI and the media.  The parallels to what we have seen over the last three years from the senior leadership of the FBI under Comey, McCabe and their willing flunkies and the Obama DOJ Holder, Lynch and Rosenstein has certainly not been lost on Clint Eastwood.  They are obvious and undeniable.  Our premier law enforcement and intelligence agencies, including Brennan’s CIA, ceased to be about our First and Fourth Amendment rights long ago, let alone national security.  They became, at the top, imperious; they came to see themselves as above the law. 

Lately, all these not-witnesses the Democrats have paraded in front of their silly impeachment committees are feigning allegiance to  the Constitution when we all know they hate the limitations it places on them.  If what the FBI did to Richard Jewell as depicted in the film is true, it would seem that the FBI gave up abiding by the constraints of the Constitution long ago.  

As we now know from the Horowitz report, those involved in the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes were completely untethered to any legal constraints at all.  They knew from the outset that the Steele dossier was phonied-up nonsense but they ran with it.  That is how stupid they all assume we deplorables are.  We are so dumb, in their minds, that there is no need to obey the law, to be honest or fair.  They have long been confident that they will never be caught or punished for their lies and crimes.  We know that many of the perpetrators of the Russia hoax still have their jobs.  If they have not aged out, the agents that framed Richard Jewell are probably still on the job or getting their pensions.  

If there is a sentient person on the planet that does not know the mainstream media is not only corrupt but that it has nothing whatever to do with news reporting, he or she must live in a cave.  The only real journalists are not on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS (except for Catherine Herridge) or NBC.  If there is even one at the NYT or WaPo, it would be good to know.  The real journalists are well outside of the mainstream:  John Solomon, Andrew McCarthy (no relation), Sara Carter, Eric Felten, Lee Smith, Gregg Jarrett, Dan Bongino, Jeff Carlson, and everyone at the Federalist.  There are many more, all available online.  These are the people who have done the heavy lifting and informed the public.  What is astonishing is the fact that the mainstream network and print people ignore what all these actual journalists report.  They assume that because they are not a member of their elite club, they are illegitimate.  Chuck Todd, for example, is oblivious to the fact that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election for Hillary!  

These folks don’t know half of what those of us who pay attention to all those people who are real investigative reporters know.  Our oh-so-self-important media elites are willfully ignorant.  Just like the FBI agents that railroaded Richard Jewell, the mainstream media has developed a narrative and they are sticking to it, no matter how seriously the actual facts undermine and discredit it.  

Eastwood’s film is a masterpiece.  He has exposed the perfidy of the FBI and the media in 1996 and at the same time shown us that the culture of the higher-ups at the FBI had not changed one bit when they decided to stage a coup against a presidential candidate they did not like. Once Trump won, they doubled-down on their betrayal of the American people and the Constitution.  Do not for one minute take seriously their sudden respect for our founding document.  A truth Dennis Prager often proclaims, “The left is the enemy of America.”  The FBI under Comey, the DOJ under Obama and the mainstream print and digital media are the public face of that enemy.  Do not miss this film.  Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell deserves an Oscar for his very fine performance. 

Richard Jewell, the film, is a perfect analogy for what the FBI and DOJ have done to President Trump, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and the American people.

Clint Eastwood’s new film is the true story of how the FBI destroyed the lives of Richard Jewell and his mother after the 1996 bombing at Centennial Park in Atlanta during the summer Olympics.  Jewell was a security guard at the park who noticed an unattended backpack under a bench.  He alerted other police on the scene who determined it was indeed a bomb.  Jewell and the other police immediately began moving people away from the scene.  The bomb did explode; two people were killed and many were injured but Jewell’s actions saved many lives.  

For a few days he was a hero but then the FBI began to focus on Jewell as the perpetrator because he “fit the profile.”  He lived with his mother, wanted to be a policeman, and had lost several security jobs for various reasons, including once for impersonating a police officer.  That is all they had, all they needed; not a shred of real evidence beyond their conviction that he must be guilty because he fit the profile.   

And based on the FBI’s certainty that he was guilty, an inelegant leak to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter, the media mob ran with the story in the cruelest of ways.   There is a scene in the film in which a room full of reporters at the AJC are laughing and applauding three days after the bombing because they were the paper to first print the news that the FBI was focusing on Jewell.   If this scene is an accurate representation, then journalists are even more cold-blooded than previously known.  It appears they can easily revel in a tragedy if they are first to report it.

It is a heart-wrenching film on every level. It is also a perfect analogy for what our current federal law enforcement agencies have done to President Trump, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and numerous others if they were in any way useful for their desired ends.  The FBI agents in the film skirt the law over and over again in their zeal to indict Jewell.  They lie, trick, bug his home without a warrant, invade his apartment and nearly strip it bare.  They attempt to entrap him over and over again.  

Watching the film, it is impossible not to think that this is exactly what the FBI under Obama did to Flynn, Page, et. al.  The only difference is that the agents in the film torture Jewell because they mistakenly concluded that he must be guilty even though they had no evidence; no trace evidence; nothing connected Jewell to the crime.  The FBI agents who persecuted Flynn, Page and Papadopoulos knew up front that none of them were guilty of anything.  They were just pawns in the plot to frame candidate Trump in order to ensure that Hillary won.  What they did was not only despicable, it was blatantly unconstitutional.  

Once Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel, they doubled-down on their evil plan.  The IG report has confirmed what millions of us have known for at least two years, that the Steele dossier was a ridiculous hoax from the outset, a collection on nonsense paid for by Hillary Clinton.   

All those craven television journalists who swore it had been confirmed and corroborated  owe their viewers a thousand apologies.  It is quite likely that none of them asserting its truthfulness had bothered to read it.  If they had, one would assume even they would have realized it was just “bar talk” as the IG report relates what the sub-source called it.  Our media have learned nothing since the Olympic bombing fiasco; not one thing. 

The villains in the film, aside from the actual bomber who was caught six years later, are the FBI and the media.  The parallels to what we have seen over the last three years from the senior leadership of the FBI under Comey, McCabe and their willing flunkies and the Obama DOJ Holder, Lynch and Rosenstein has certainly not been lost on Clint Eastwood.  They are obvious and undeniable.  Our premier law enforcement and intelligence agencies, including Brennan’s CIA, ceased to be about our First and Fourth Amendment rights long ago, let alone national security.  They became, at the top, imperious; they came to see themselves as above the law. 

Lately, all these not-witnesses the Democrats have paraded in front of their silly impeachment committees are feigning allegiance to  the Constitution when we all know they hate the limitations it places on them.  If what the FBI did to Richard Jewell as depicted in the film is true, it would seem that the FBI gave up abiding by the constraints of the Constitution long ago.  

As we now know from the Horowitz report, those involved in the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes were completely untethered to any legal constraints at all.  They knew from the outset that the Steele dossier was phonied-up nonsense but they ran with it.  That is how stupid they all assume we deplorables are.  We are so dumb, in their minds, that there is no need to obey the law, to be honest or fair.  They have long been confident that they will never be caught or punished for their lies and crimes.  We know that many of the perpetrators of the Russia hoax still have their jobs.  If they have not aged out, the agents that framed Richard Jewell are probably still on the job or getting their pensions.  

If there is a sentient person on the planet that does not know the mainstream media is not only corrupt but that it has nothing whatever to do with news reporting, he or she must live in a cave.  The only real journalists are not on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS (except for Catherine Herridge) or NBC.  If there is even one at the NYT or WaPo, it would be good to know.  The real journalists are well outside of the mainstream:  John Solomon, Andrew McCarthy (no relation), Sara Carter, Eric Felten, Lee Smith, Gregg Jarrett, Dan Bongino, Jeff Carlson, and everyone at the Federalist.  There are many more, all available online.  These are the people who have done the heavy lifting and informed the public.  What is astonishing is the fact that the mainstream network and print people ignore what all these actual journalists report.  They assume that because they are not a member of their elite club, they are illegitimate.  Chuck Todd, for example, is oblivious to the fact that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election for Hillary!  

These folks don’t know half of what those of us who pay attention to all those people who are real investigative reporters know.  Our oh-so-self-important media elites are willfully ignorant.  Just like the FBI agents that railroaded Richard Jewell, the mainstream media has developed a narrative and they are sticking to it, no matter how seriously the actual facts undermine and discredit it.  

Eastwood’s film is a masterpiece.  He has exposed the perfidy of the FBI and the media in 1996 and at the same time shown us that the culture of the higher-ups at the FBI had not changed one bit when they decided to stage a coup against a presidential candidate they did not like. Once Trump won, they doubled-down on their betrayal of the American people and the Constitution.  Do not for one minute take seriously their sudden respect for our founding document.  A truth Dennis Prager often proclaims, “The left is the enemy of America.”  The FBI under Comey, the DOJ under Obama and the mainstream print and digital media are the public face of that enemy.  Do not miss this film.  Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell deserves an Oscar for his very fine performance. 

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report contains so much to be outraged by that it’s hard to sustain the energy. And it goes way beyond his mind-numbing catalogue of FBI abuses.

To take just one example, as Tucker Carlson pointed out, Horowitz’s report verifies that Obama’s CIA director John Brennan outright lied when he testified that the Steele dossier played no role in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. Brennan’s perjury here has been public knowledge for a long time now. Paul Sperry reported on it way back in February 2018.

But now Brennan’s lie under oath before Congress is officially documented in the IG report. Why isn’t the DoJ finally going after Brennan for it? What possible reason could there be to wait for Prosecutor John Durham to finish his investigation into the FBI’s Russia probe before nailing Brennan about his lie to Congress?

The 2017 ICA is the evidentiary basis for the whole garbage “Russians hacked the DNC” narrative. Hillary Clinton constantly regurgitates the lie that the ICA was the product of all 17 US intelligence agencies so she can delegitimize both Trump’s presidency and the massive volume of appalling information about her character and competence WikiLeaks released. But in the real world outside her decrepit odious deceiving mind, the ICA was produced by a bunch of analysts Brennan chose specifically for the task.

So, Brennan’s perjury when he falsely testified that the ICA wasn’t based on opposition research paid for by the wretched woman’s own campaign is a very big deal. But Roger Stone is going to jail for lying about stuff that literally had no relevance to the investigation for which he was testifying? That’s just one of an unbelievably large array of serious crimes that nothing is being done about. The GOP appears to be content to yell “In your face, Comey!” while the DoJ does nothing.

If you tried to sit down and list all of it the open-and-shut serious crimes that we’re waiting for Durham’s investigation to finish before the DoJ gets off its duff and does something about them you’d go mad from despair and frustration. Mueller didn’t wait till he was all finished before destroying Paul Manafort’s and Roger Stone’s lives for crimes that were all either trivial or had absolutely no bearing on the matters he was investigating. He came down on them as hard as possible as soon as he could. He even conducted a pre-dawn paramilitary raid to arrest 67-year-old Stone at which CNN just happened to be present in advance with cameras ready to roll.

Yet Brennan is getting paid by CNN to spread more lies, discord, and sedition because for some reason we have to wait for Durham to come down from the mountain before the DoJ will start prosecuting even one of the many clear cases involving monumental and outrageous abuses of power. When Durham’s report comes out, Brennan and the rest ought to be in already in prison and merely learning how much more time they are likely to face.

Maybe when Durham’s denouement to this sickening saga of relentless government lawlessness comes it will be spectacular and totally worth the wait. But it’s hard not to believe it’s going to be any less of an obscene disappointment than everything else we’ve seen so far.

Michael Thau is a contributor at “American Greatness and blogs at Aclearerpicture.net.

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report contains so much to be outraged by that it’s hard to sustain the energy. And it goes way beyond his mind-numbing catalogue of FBI abuses.

To take just one example, as Tucker Carlson pointed out, Horowitz’s report verifies that Obama’s CIA director John Brennan outright lied when he testified that the Steele dossier played no role in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. Brennan’s perjury here has been public knowledge for a long time now. Paul Sperry reported on it way back in February 2018.

But now Brennan’s lie under oath before Congress is officially documented in the IG report. Why isn’t the DoJ finally going after Brennan for it? What possible reason could there be to wait for Prosecutor John Durham to finish his investigation into the FBI’s Russia probe before nailing Brennan about his lie to Congress?

The 2017 ICA is the evidentiary basis for the whole garbage “Russians hacked the DNC” narrative. Hillary Clinton constantly regurgitates the lie that the ICA was the product of all 17 US intelligence agencies so she can delegitimize both Trump’s presidency and the massive volume of appalling information about her character and competence WikiLeaks released. But in the real world outside her decrepit odious deceiving mind, the ICA was produced by a bunch of analysts Brennan chose specifically for the task.

So, Brennan’s perjury when he falsely testified that the ICA wasn’t based on opposition research paid for by the wretched woman’s own campaign is a very big deal. But Roger Stone is going to jail for lying about stuff that literally had no relevance to the investigation for which he was testifying? That’s just one of an unbelievably large array of serious crimes that nothing is being done about. The GOP appears to be content to yell “In your face, Comey!” while the DoJ does nothing.

If you tried to sit down and list all of it the open-and-shut serious crimes that we’re waiting for Durham’s investigation to finish before the DoJ gets off its duff and does something about them you’d go mad from despair and frustration. Mueller didn’t wait till he was all finished before destroying Paul Manafort’s and Roger Stone’s lives for crimes that were all either trivial or had absolutely no bearing on the matters he was investigating. He came down on them as hard as possible as soon as he could. He even conducted a pre-dawn paramilitary raid to arrest 67-year-old Stone at which CNN just happened to be present in advance with cameras ready to roll.

Yet Brennan is getting paid by CNN to spread more lies, discord, and sedition because for some reason we have to wait for Durham to come down from the mountain before the DoJ will start prosecuting even one of the many clear cases involving monumental and outrageous abuses of power. When Durham’s report comes out, Brennan and the rest ought to be in already in prison and merely learning how much more time they are likely to face.

Maybe when Durham’s denouement to this sickening saga of relentless government lawlessness comes it will be spectacular and totally worth the wait. But it’s hard not to believe it’s going to be any less of an obscene disappointment than everything else we’ve seen so far.

Michael Thau is a contributor at “American Greatness and blogs at Aclearerpicture.net.