You must have lost lots of sleep to come up with that nonsense.

LOL. I hope it didn't keep you up!

Yes, IF there is no repentance.I have no problems with any of it , no matter what order he puts it or who he thinks idolaters are or who you think they are.He is merely state a teaching - however I do concede one thing - that paraphrasing scripture is not the best way to go. Nevertheless the meaning is still understood by Christians.

The meaning of just about everyone of those dreadful dot points, is contested by Christians and, in some cases, within the Catholic Church. There is, for example, no easy equivalence between the words of scripture and the concept we understand by a term 'homosexual'. Christians can have differences of opinion about what the scripture, written a long time ago, in a different culture, means for us.

Even New Advent, published more than a hundred years ago, doesn't represent modern Catholic thinking or emphasis on a whole range of subjects.

Strange how you don't get it. For your future reference: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07636a.htm

That is strange! My contention was that, for some denominations (including the one that Folau belongs to) 'idolatry' is a term which refers to the Catholic Church (and others).

So, in response, you provide a definition of idolatry which is Catholic?

Still, you avoid the elephant in your room.

If a person freely agrees to curtail some of their public pronouncements as a part of a contract, then it is not a 'freedom of speech' issue. Folau wasn't forced, he chose to modify his behaviour as part of his new contract.

If that, in his view, was unreasonable he shouldn't have signed or, if he changed his mind, he should have let his employer know that he wanted to either renegotiate the contract or, if necessary, withdraw from it.

That would have been the principled thing to do and a stand worthy of respect.

But Folau chose to do the very thing he knew was a problem before and, in doing so, broke the agreement. He then cried foul and asked others to pay for the consequences of his actions.