Billy Vunipola warned by Saracens over his support for Israel Folau

• Club say Vunipola ‘made serious error of judgment’
• Folau said hell awaits homosexuals, adulterers and idolaters

Billy Vunipola has been warned about his future conduct by Saracens after his online support for the Australia full-back Israel Folau, who has been served with a termination of contract notice for repeatedly using his social media accounts to tell sinners to repent.

Folau, who has two days to respond to Rugby Australia’s ruling that he committed a “high-level breach of the professional players’ code of conduct” which merited his contract being ripped up, defined sins as “adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness and revellings”, quoting from the bible.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Pc4YZy

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