Back to the prison box. For the third time since 2022, Enoch Burke, a former German and history teacher, returned to Mountjoy Prison in Dublin on Monday, where he had already spent more than 400 days in detention, and returned to Wilson's Hospital School in Westmeath, County Ireland. The teacher was fired in 2022 after a conflict with the principal, who criticized his treatment of a transgender student. Because of his religious values, Enoch Burke refused to use his new first name at the student's request and the new pronoun that the student wanted to refer to after his gender transition.

This Monday, September 2, for the third time, Enoch Burke went to Wilson's Hospital School, ignoring the court order that banned him from approaching the school that suspended him. He spoke to journalists present at the site, as his case had been widely publicized for three years; Especially By Sky News Irish police report snippets of interaction with teacher before arrest Enoch Burke indicated that he thought his dismissal from the institution was not valid because the appeals process had not been completed, and indicated that he was still being paid as a teacher. So he went to school despite a judge's ban. “To do [s]we have to”That is, teach.

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The teacher added that he had never refused to teach any student, whoever he was, but he refused “Betray [s]Declaring religious beliefs [s]Believing in Transgender Ideology”Considering that the institution's ban on referring to the trans student by his new first name and pronoun violates his rights and freedom of religion.

Enoch Burke, a self-described Protestant evangelist, again referred to his Christian faith to explain his behavior after he was arrested by police and brought before a judge at Dublin High Court after pictures of him loitering outside the school went viral on social media. Court. Judge Michael Quinn ruled that the facts were limited to his failure to comply with a ban on him from approaching the school establishment and ordered the teacher, who was released before sentencing in June, to be detained immediately. Full text.