Margaret Court is not only Australia’s greatest ever tennis player, but she is also proving to be something of a lightning rod regarding religious freedom. Just take the totally unprovoked attack by Sunday Telegraph columnist Claire Harvey in response to the news that Sam Stosur and her partner Lisa Reymond had recently had a baby—significantly, there was no mention of the father—Harvey concocted the following scenario: 

Leading homophobe Margaret Court no doubt began melting into her Volleys, and is presumably rolling a sheet of A4 into her Olivetti right now to fire off an angry letter to the editor about it.

To begin with, Harvey...