FILE PHOTO: Australian Wallabies Rugby team fullback Israel Folau leaves a news conference with Australian Rugby Union general manager Rob Clarke at the Wallabies Headquarters in Sydney, July 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Reed
(Reuters) - Rugby Australia (RA) said on Wednesday that fullback Israel Folau's latest anti-gay comments on social media were "unacceptable" and its integrity unit would look into the matter.
Wallabies international Folau, one of the nation's top players and most marketable athletes, wrote on Instagram that gays would be condemned to "hell" if they failed to "repent".
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