Enoch Burke teacher Ireland

Mr Burke told the court that even if he had to remain in prison for 'every hour of every day for the next 100 years' he would not compromise his beliefs nor ...

The school claims his refusal to comply with the injunction may be disruptive to the school's students at the beginning of the new academic year. He said he had voiced his opposition to the school's direction, he said the student at the centre of the request was not in any of his classes, nor had he had any direct dealings with that particular student. He said he was before the courts over his refusal to comply with what he said was his unlawful suspension over his attitude towards a direction by the school to address one of its students by a different pronoun was to deny him his constitutional rights to religious freedom. It was, as the school submitted, about Mr Burke's refusal to comply with the terms of his paid suspension and the terms of the injunction obtained by the school. Ms Mallon argued to the court that the case before the judge was not about the teacher's opposition to transgenderism, nor his objection to the school's direction to staff last May to call "a boy," as being "a girl" at the school. The order was granted after the school's lawyers claimed Mr Burke was not complying with either the terms of his paid suspension, as well as the injunction requiring him to stay away from the school.

Enoch Burke, a teacher suspended for misgendering a student, has been jailed for contempt of court after threatening to defy a judge.

[Independent.ie](http://independent.ie) reported Burke opposed an application from Wilson’s Hospital School for his imprisonment, saying: “I love my school. [Independent.ie](http://independent.ie) the school acknowledged Burke’s religious beliefs but expects him to communicate with the student in accordance with their and their parents’ wishes. The school’s former principal Niamh McShane had reportedly told Burke it was part of the school’s admission policy not to discriminate against a student on any of the grounds set out in the 2000 Equal Status Act. He claimed that staying away would violate his religious beliefs. Enoch Burke’s initial stages of incarceration will be spent in the jail’s C-Base and due to measures introduced to prevent the spread of COVID-19 he will not mix with the general prison until a negative test for the virus is returned, according to Independent.ie. [Independent.ie](http://independent.ie) the counsel said Burke’s own account, as he represented himself, “satisfied the criminal standard of proof beyond all reasonable doubt that he had breached the order and would continue to do so”.

Irish schoolteacher Enoch Burke (centre) arriving at the High Court, Dublin, after he was committed to Mountjoy Prison in Dublin for breaching a temporary court ...

“This was not about his beliefs. Let me to sit in classroom and teach’. “I have spent the last two nights in prison,” he added. “It seems to me that I can be a Christian in Mountjoy Prison or be a pagan and respecter of transgenderism outside of it. “That is interfering and it is not the function of this court to do at such an early stage of the disciplinary process.” [1](https://www.newsletter.co.uk/education/enoch-burke-irish-evangelical-christian-teacher-goes-back-to-jail-in-row-over-using-transgender-pronouns-3834908?itm_source=parsely-api)Enoch Burke: Irish Evangelical Christian teacher goes back to jail in row over using transgender pronouns [2](https://www.newsletter.co.uk/education/what-are-the-best-secondary-schools-in-northern-ireland-2021-sunday-times-school-guide-reveals-parent-power-results-3481632?itm_source=parsely-api)What are the best secondary schools in Northern Ireland 2021? He added: “This court can’t deprive me of my religion and can’t deprive me of my dignity, it can’t deprive me of my faith in God and those are things I intend to hold fast to.” He told the court that what he was being asked to do was “contrary to the work of God”. He claimed that the “demands” of the principal forced him to participate in transgenderism. He also claimed there was an “unlawful attempt” to persecute him for stating his opposition to transgenderism, and that the court was depriving him of his liberty and dignity. He told the court that if that choice was put to him “every hour of every day for next 100 years”, he would answer the question the same. Mr Burke was committed to Mountjoy Prison in Dublin on Monday by order of a High Court judge after he breached a temporary court order that he was to stay away from his workplace and not to attend the classroom.

Enoch Burke, who is an evangelical Christian, was suspended from work on full pay last month pending the outcome of a disciplinary process after a number of ...

It is also claimed that he said that he could not agree with transgenderism, and said it went against the school's ethos and the teaching of the Church of Ireland. He said he had voiced his opposition to the school's direction, he said the student at the centre of the request was not in any of his classes, nor had he had any direct dealings with that particular student. The order was obtained because the board claims that Mr Burke was not abiding by the terms of his suspension, which it is alleged he believes is unlawful, by attending at the school. He said that he was before the courts over his refusal to comply with what he said is his unlawful suspension over his attitude towards a direction by the school to address one of its students by a different pronoun was to deny him his constitutional rights to religious freedom. It was, as the school submitted, about Mr Burke's refusal to comply with the terms of his paid suspension and the terms of the injunction obtained by the school. He told the court that even if he had to remain in prison for "every hour of every day for the next 100 years" he would not compromise his beliefs nor agree to comply with the terms of the court order.