We do treat sportsmen as adults

I see that Australian sportsman Israel Folau got himself in hot water over the last few weeks with remarks about gay people.

You know as well as I do that we file ‘sportsperson makes moronic intervention in real world’ in the ‘dog bites man’ category of novelty, so let me explain my interest.

Folau chose to expand on the background to his remarks — something about the Bible justifying them, which presumably comes near the passage justifying slavery — on the PlayersVoice website in Australia, a site that came into being in part, according to its own mission statement, because of “dissatisfaction with the negativity of coverage in some traditional media outlets”.