Former Wallaby Dan Palmer 'humbled' by support after g out as gay | Rugby unn | The Guardian

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• ‘MY OWN ATH FELT PREFERABLE TO ANYBODY DISVERG I WAS GAY,’ SAYS FORMER GBY PLAYER DAN PALMER
• PEACE BE WH YOU. AND ALSO WH YOU. UNLS YOU’RE GAY.
• 'MY OWN ATH FELT PREFERABLE TO ANYBODY DISVERG': FORMER WALLABY DAN PALMER OUT AS GAY POWERFUL LUMN
• DAN PALMER, FORMER PRO GBY PLAYER, OUT AS GAY TEAR-JERKER OP-ED
• FORMER WALLABY DAN PALMER 'HUMBLED' BY SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• 'MY OWN ATH FELT PREFERABLE TO ANYONE DISVERG I WAS GAY'
• DAN PALMER PRAISED AFTER BEG FIRST WALLABI PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

‘MY OWN ATH FELT PREFERABLE TO ANYBODY DISVERG I WAS GAY,’ SAYS FORMER GBY PLAYER DAN PALMER

Former Atralian ternatnal Dan Palmer, who has bee only the send male gby unn profsnal after Gareth Thomas to e out as gay, says he “routely numbed” himself wh a “heavy cktail of opids” as he stggled wh his sexualy durg his playg reer.

PEACE BE WH YOU. AND ALSO WH YOU. UNLS YOU’RE GAY.

It is not an exaggeratn to say my own ath felt preferable to anybody disverg I was gay. Palmer add that part of the motivatn behd g out was the saga surroundg Israel Fol, the former gby unn player who was sacked by Rugby Atralia for an anti-gay social media post.

Fol, a vout Christian, was dismissed for an Instagram post which he said “hell awas” gay people.

Retired Wallabi and Super Rugby prop Dan Palmer has revealed the toll hidg his homosexualy took on his mental health durg his playg pots:Dan Palmer says he was "trated, angry and sperately sad" as he hid his sexualy durg his gby reer wh the Bmbi, Waratahs and WallabiPalmer has wrten of his stggl for the first time, sayg he hop helps people feel more fortable wh themselv Palmer cricised former gby unn star Israel Fol, who had his ntract torn up by Rugby Atralia for social media posts about homosexualsIn an article wrten for The Sydney Morng Herald, Palmer scribed the ner turmoil he endured, even amid his achievements on the ma 46 Super Rugby appearanc for the Waratahs and Bmbi — beg a vice-pta for the latter si — and played a Tt for the Wallabi agast Stland is one of only a few male profsnal gby unn players to e out worldwi, the hight profile beg former Wal, and Brish and Irish Lns ternatnal Gareth Thomas said he was "credibly trated, angry and sperately sad" durg his reer, addg that he was "trapped a false narrative and uld see no way out".

'MY OWN ATH FELT PREFERABLE TO ANYBODY DISVERG': FORMER WALLABY DAN PALMER OUT AS GAY POWERFUL LUMN

"It is not an exaggeratn to say my own ath felt preferable to anybody disverg I was gay. "He was the first person I told that I was gay my 25 years on the pla, " Palmer wrote. Fol's views the exceptn, not the le, says Palmer Palmer rerved stgg cricism for former gby unn star Israel Fol, who was sacked by Rugby Atralia 2019 for breachg the players' of ma a number of ntroversial Instagram posts, cludg one proclaimg hell awas "dnks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornitors, thiev, atheists and idolators".

"I believe sport is at s bt when 's challengg society to be more clive, " he said Palmer's article was a "good remr of how much more work there is to do" to enurage clivy Denison, a rearcher at Monash Universy's School of Social Scienc, has nducted rearch on homophobic language gby unn and the impact on players stgglg wh their Denison said Palmer's experience was siar to what Thomas went through durg his playg reer prr to revealg his sexualy. Five days earlier, bishops om 107 dc at the church’s triennial General Conventn, Mneapolis, had voted to nsecrate the ordatn of a homosexual bishop named V. The church had long tolerated the prence of gay prits, and some bishops had been ordag openly gay prits and ans sce the eighti.

DAN PALMER, FORMER PRO GBY PLAYER, OUT AS GAY TEAR-JERKER OP-ED

But to many members, a gay bishop was unthkable.

(To a lser extent, the same thg is happeng other prottant nomatns, cludg the Prbyterian and Methodist church; but they have had nothg like an official endorsement of a gay bishop. The Network would rist the ordatn of gays and mister to the nservative ngregatns who now refed to take munn wh pridg bishop Frank Griswold, the head of the church—or to even have him vis their church. The larger, and starker, tth of the Amerin rebelln is that while the bishops of Dallas and Fort Worth, whose dc have joed the Network, are the mory of Amerin Epispal lears opposed to havg a gay bishop, they are the overwhelmg majory the rt of the Anglin world.

The fight over how to addrs homosexualy the church is also, rather obvly, a fight about how to save THE CITY OF DALLAS, fifteen south of David Roseberry’s airy $8 ln sanctuary, is a much olr and smaller Epispal church lled St. Bee of that, this once sleepy parish beme a mag for gay and lbian people. Waller, who is gay, is nohels the difficult posn of leadg a majory gay and lbian church one of the most nservative dc the untry, prid over by one of the natn’s most nservative bishops, the Right Reverend Jam M.

FORMER WALLABY DAN PALMER 'HUMBLED' BY SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Startg the early seventi, variatns of this theologil bate about homosexualy kept breakg out at Epispal dcan and natnal nventns.

Homosexualy was jt one area which nservativ thought the church creasgly weak and more reflective of Amerin pop culture than the Bible. At issue was the 1990 ordatn of a gay an the dce of Newark, New Jersey, home of the articulate, inoclastic lear of the church’s liberal wg, the Right Reverend John S.

Righter was Spong’s had ordaed a gay prit late 1989 and had liberately publicized . Gay ordatns ntued the dce of Newark, and 1996 nservativ the church cid to take a stand by tryg Righter on two charg stemmg om his 1990 ordatn of an avowedly gay an, both of which volved a vlatn of ordatn laws. They led that the church had no “re doctre” on sexualy that prohibed the ordatn of a gay prit.

'MY OWN ATH FELT PREFERABLE TO ANYONE DISVERG I WAS GAY'

Bishops voted 562­70 for a rolutn clarg that while gays were “loved by God, ” homosexual activy was “patible wh Scripture” and advisg agast the ordatn of non-celibate gays. Its factns were still eply divid, but the church had not changed s official policy—disapproval—on homosexual clergy. ”CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT MANY Epispal church have long ma gays feel wele, jt what is that nservativ n’t abi about homosexuals?

DAN PALMER PRAISED AFTER BEG FIRST WALLABI PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

And a church that has knowgly ordaed homosexual prits at least sce the seventi, what was about the nsecratn of a bishop the ty dce of New Hampshire 2003 that touched off such a global storm the Anglin Church? They argue, wh ltle credible opposn, that the Bible nsistently nmns gay sex.

“The church has always been unanimo s nmnatn of the homosexual liftyle. The cultur that the Christian church me to—Roman and Greek—were very firmly acceptg of homosexualy, and men havg sexual relatnships wh young boys was mon and acceptable, pecially for the upper class.

”It is a mon misnceptn that nservativ like Iker, Stanton, and Roseberry want to exclu gays om the church altogether. (They are even agreeable to beg part of a church that ordas homosexuals, as they have proven for more than two s. ) Their posn is that Scripture holds homosexual acts to be unnatural, ungodly, and therefore sful.