All Black Brad Weber has slammed Israel Folau for his comments about gay people going to hell.
The New Zealand player took to Twitter on Tuesday to express his disgust at having to play rugby with the controversial Australian fullback.
Weber’s comments set up a potentially fiery clash when his Super Rugby team the Chiefs take on Folau’s Waratahs in Hamilton on May 26.
All Black Brad Weber has slammed Israel Folau (pictured with his wife Maria) for his comments about gay people going to hell
The New Zealand player (pictured) took to Twitter on Tuesday to express his disgust at having to play Rugby with the controversial Australian fullback
‘Kinda sick of us players staying quiet on some of this stuff,’ Weber wrote on Twitter (pictured)
‘Kinda sick of us players staying quiet on some of this stuff,’ Weber wrote on Twitter.
‘I can’t stand that I have to play this game that I love with people, like Folau, who say what he’s saying.’
The 27-year-old halfback revealed he has gay family members, said he hates having to play rugby against someone who thinks they will go to hell.
‘My cousin and her partner, and my Aunty and her partner are some of the most kind, caring and loving people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.
The 27-year-old halfback revealed he has gay family members, said he hates having to play rugby against someone who thinks they will go to hell (pictured)
Weber’s (pictured) comments set up a potentially fiery clash when his Super Rugby team the Chiefs take on Folau’s Waratahs in Hamilton on May 26
‘To think that I play against someone that says they’ll go to Hell for being gay disgusts me.’
Weber was supported by another New Zealand rugby star, Chris Eaton, who replied with an image of a Bible verse about men selling their daughters as slaves.
‘The bible is filled with nasty s***. That’s what makes his [Folau’s] view so retarded,’ wrote Eaton.
Weber is the host of a podcast called Code Trippin with Chiefs teammate Michael Allardice.
Israel Folau (pictured at his wedding) has been widely condemned for claiming on Instagram this month that gay people were destined for hell unless they ‘repent their sins and turn to God’
The devout Christian wrote in Players Voice he never intended to hurt anyone with his social media comment, but said he could never shy away from who he is (pictured are Folau’s controversial comments)
Allardice was forced to apologise for a homophobic slur of his own during Mad Monday celebrations in 2016.
A Waikato man heard Allardice yell ‘Here come the gays, here come the gays,’ while at the Okoroire hot pools, near Matamata, with two friends.
Allardice apologised for the comments and any harm they may have caused, but said they were aimed at two teammates who had just walked in.
Israel Folau has been widely condemned for claiming on Instagram this month that gay people were destined for hell unless they ‘repent their sins and turn to God’.
Folau (pictured, left, right with his wife Maria) said he reads the Bible ‘every day’ and said it gave him direction and answered his questions
The devout Christian wrote in Players Voice he never intended to hurt anyone with his social media comment, but said he could never shy away from who he is.
‘It’s about what I believe in and never compromising that, because my faith is far more important to me than my career and always will be,’ he said.
Folau said he reads the Bible ‘every day’ and said it gave him direction and answered his questions.
‘No man or woman is different from another – if you sin, which we all do, and do not repent and seek forgiveness, then you will not inherit the Kingdom of God,’ he wrote.