As Steve & I have addressed ourselves to the term 'role model' above, Ian, I feel you are begging the question by re-employing it in your last post. Mr Evans plays football for his living, which is a job like any other at which he happens to be skilled & in which he has some experience. "Role modelling" is no part of the job description, nor in any way written into a footballer's contract. And how you imagine it be part of that of "teachers, health and social care professionals" entirely eludes my comprehension; tho I suppose it might just be considered an implicit part of the role of professional religious practitioners. "Idolatry by children"? So what of it? Is our society to be constituted in accordance with the whims & fantasies of its children?

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