Does Hell await homosexuals? Inclined to doubt it, I’m proceeding on the basis that the truth is otherwise but, really, who knows? Are the Jews God’s chosen people? Ditto. Do God, or Hell, or Heaven, exist at all? Ditto. Surely we can have different views about these things — and express them.

Which leads me to raise an eyebrow at the Rugby Football Union’s formal disciplining this week of the Saracens’ player Billy Vunipola for simply “liking” an Instagram post by an Australian rugby player expressing his Christian belief that a whole range of people, including gays, are damned.

It goes with the territory of being a famous sportsman that, like it or not, you become a kind of public figure. It follows (one could