{"id":33878,"date":"2024-09-03T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=33878"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:18:03","slug":"irish-teacher-jailed-for-a-third-time-for-refusing-to-call-a-boy-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/irish-teacher-jailed-for-a-third-time-for-refusing-to-call-a-boy-a-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish teacher jailed for a third time for refusing to ‘call a boy a girl’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Irish teacher Enoch Burke jailed for a third time after he was arrested outside the school that sacked him for refusing to ‘call a boy a girl’. (Mr Burke pictured here arriving at the court of appeal in Dublin in February 2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Irish schoolteacher Enoch Burke has been sent to prison for the third time following his arrest outside the school that sacked him for refusing to ‘call a boy a girl’.<\/p>\n

On 2nd September 2024, Mr Burke was placed inside a Garda vehicle outside Wilson’s Hospital School in Ireland’s Co Westmeath and driven to the Four Courts in Dublin, according to the Irish Independent.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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The judge made the decision after Mr. Burke repeatedly refused to give a direct answer when asked if he would continue to ignore an order from Mr. Justice Alexander Owens, which prohibits him from attending the school.<\/p>\n

Mr. Justice Quinn stated that he was ‘satisfied’ Mr. Burke was in contempt of court and noted that his presence at the school was ‘disruptive to the staff\u2019s ability to provide orderly education to pupils’. He ordered that Mr. Burke be detained at Mountjoy Prison until he ‘purges his contempt’.<\/p>\n

The case will be listed again on 11th October 2024 but the judge said Mr Burke could ‘purge his contempt’ before then.<\/p>\n

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Mr Burke pictured at Wilson’s Hospital School gate in 2023. photo :DailyMail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the ruling, Mr Burke told the judge: ‘You will answer to God for imprisoning me for my religious beliefs.’<\/p>\n

‘This court is simply denying me my religious beliefs, and my right to my religious beliefs. I am a Christian. I have Christian beliefs. My belief is male and female, God made them male and female.’<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Mr. Burke and his family argued that the numerous judges who have handled the case had failed to address a report made by the school’s then-principal, Niamh McShane, which prompted to the schoolteacher\u2019s suspension in August 2022.<\/p>\n

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Legality ‘never considered’<\/h2>\n

They said: ‘You can lie like your colleagues have over the past two years. The truth can be trampled into the ground but it will rise again.’<\/p>\n

Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Burke said Ms McShane had claimed he was guilty of gross misconduct due to his refusal to call a ‘transitioning student’ by a new name and the pronoun ‘they’. He said the legality of that demand was never considered by the court.<\/p>\n

However, last year, Judge Owens found the school was right to suspend Mr Burke over fears of ‘harmful and disruptive conduct’<\/p>\n

The Bible says,
\nRomans 14:10-12 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ…So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Watch the video of police at Burke’s family home:
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