Sacked Wallabies rugby star Israel Folau has claimed gay marriage and abortion are responsible for the bush fire crisis in Australia.
In a sermon posted on Facebook, former full-back Folau claimed the crisis, along with the ongoing drought, were both punishments for legalising same-sex marriage and abortion.
Folau, 30, was filmed delivering a sermon at the Church of Jesus Christ in Kenthurst on Sunday.
"God's word says for a man and a woman to be together, one man and one woman in the covenant of marriage to be together. They've changed that law and have now legalised same-sex marriage," Folau said in the sermon.
"Abortion, it's okay now to murder and kill infants, unborn children, and they deem that to be okay.
"You have changed the law and changed the ordinance of these things, look how rampant these bushfires, these droughts ... all these things have come in a short period of time. Do you think it's a coincidence or not?
"God is speaking to you guys, Australia. You need to repent."
Folau is suing Rugby Australia for unlawfully terminating his contract because of his religious beliefs and is seeking £5.3m ($10m) in damages.
Folau had already been warned for posting similar comments on social media in 2018.
His contract was torn up back in May, after he was guilty of a high-level breach of Rugby Australia's (RA) code of conduct for a social media post claiming hell awaits homosexuals, drunks, fornicators and liars unless they repent.
