Israel Folau targets gays, transgender children in latest Sunday sermon

Israel Folau intensifies attack on homosexuals and transgender children | WATCH

Former rugby star Israel Folau has targeted transgender children as the focus for his latest attack on gender and sexuality, saying gender fluidity was the work of the “devil”.

At a sermon at his Sydney Church yesterday, Folau escalated his attacks on homosexuals, after his Instagram post declaring gays were going to hell cost him his $5 million contract with Rugby Australia.

He restated that homosexuality was a sin and claimed the devil was behind primary school children being allowed to decide if they wanted to change gender.

“In today’s youths and everything, they are allowing young kids in primary school to be able to have the permission to change their gender if they want by taking away the permission of the parents,” Folau said in his Sunday sermon at The Truth of Jesus Christ Church in Kenthurst in Sydney’s outer northwest.

“Now they are trying to take control as a government to make those decisions for young kids who are basically 16 years old or young, they don’t even know what they are doing.

“This is what the devil is trying to do,” Folau said, “To instil into this government, into this world, into society, and it is slowly happening.

“They say that a man and a man should be able to be married and there is nothing wrong with it. This buys into the theme of pleasing man rather than pleasing God and standing up for the truth,” Folau continued in the sermon, which was posted to the church’s Facebook page.

Israel Folau with his wife Maria Folau after a Sunday service. Picture: Hollie Adams

Folau criticised “westernised” modern values, and urged true believers of Jesus Christ to “profess him wherever we go”.

“True believers in Christ, are we going to follow through and profess him wherever we go,” he said, “Are we too scared because we might be cast out by our workplace or cast out of somewhere because we’re not liked or loved by those around us and don’t believe the same thing we do?

“You might be the only born-again Christian in that workplace, you might feel a bit awkward with your co-workers because they are in the world and you’re not,” he said.

Folau levelled accusations at churches for allowing gender fluidity and homosexuality to continue under their watch and he said, that non-Christians “say bad things” about churches because they “allow those things to happen”.

He said pastors and religious leaders were too eager to please, to “climb the ladder” and were not passing on the true values of Christianity.

Folau has begun a legal challenge against Rugby Australia’s decision to terminate his contract and is seeking up to $10 million in damages.

WITH AAP