James Crisp – The Telegraph Sept 6, 2022
A teacher who refused to use gender-neutral pronouns for a transgender student was jailed in Ireland for contempt of court.
Enoch Burke, an evangelical Christian, was put on paid suspension by Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath for refusing to call the pupil “they”.
He was later jailed for breaking a court order not to go to or try to teach at the Church of Ireland School.
“I love my school, with its motto Res Non Verba, actions not words, but I am here today because I said I would not call a boy a girl,” he told the judge before his jailing.
The court heard on Monday that Burke had refused to stay away from the school on paid leave during the disciplinary process. Instead, he would sit in an empty classroom and declare he was there to work.
The judge told the History and German teacher he must stay in prison until he agrees to comply with the terms of the injunction, which would purge his contempt of court.
Burke said: “Transgenderism is against my Christian belief. It is contrary to the scriptures, contrary to the ethos of the Church of Ireland and of my school.
“It is insanity that I will be led from this courtroom to a place of incarceration, but I will not give up my Christian beliefs.”
Lawyers for the Church of Ireland school said it was forced with “a heavy heart” to take action leading to Mr Burke’s jailing after he broke the court order it secured last week.
Earlier Burke, who represented himself, had told the court he would return to the school, despite being arrested there on Monday.
Judge Michael Quinn said he was only ruling on whether there had been a wilful breach of the court order, which is meant to prevent disruption at the school at the start of the new term, rather than on Burke’s beliefs.
“I am a teacher and I don’t want to go to prison. I want to be in my classroom today, that’s where I was this morning when I was arrested,” Burke said in his defence.
He said it was “extraordinary and reprehensible” that his religious beliefs could lead to his suspension by the school.
He added: “Transgenderism is against my Christian belief. It is contrary to the scriptures, contrary to the ethos of the Church of Ireland and of my school.
“My religious beliefs are not misconduct. They are not gross misconduct. They never will be. They are dear to me. I will never deny them and never betray them, and I will never bow to an order that would require me to do so. It is just not possible for me to do that,” he told the court.
The school has said it is abiding by Ireland’s 2000 Equal Status Act by not discriminating against any student and was focused on the welfare of its pupils.
Burke will be back in court on Wednesday, when the injunction is to be reviewed.
Don’t worry, the fiefdom that is Ireland won’t mind the public cost of incarceration.
I hope Mr Burke can stick it out for the long haul.
At least there is one man in Ireland who is willing to stand up for his beliefs , which is more than can be said for the so called Christian churches in Ireland and our pathetic woke Globalist government.
Well done to Enoch Burke
If you’re a teacher in a goofy Western civilization country, simply don’t use pronouns, call all students by their first name in all situations.
What will the judge do if Burke always calls or refers to the transgender student by the student’s first name? You called him Yusuf! Five years in prison!
To this day, I do not understand why not calling a boy or a girl as “they” is an act of discrimination
What an ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE!!….so 1984 approaches by stealth.
This SHOULD have had the Irish demonstrating in the street….but not even a whimper.
Perhaps most of them dont realise what this heralds….a complete loss of freedoms.
To do what he did required a great deal of nerve. For everyone else, we just have to take “little stands” in the hope others will be fighting their little corner of the battlefield as well.
The word boy or girl is a common noun, the former masculine, the latter feminine. These mentioned words are not pronouns. He or she is a singular third-person pronoun. The word “they” is a personal plural third-person pronoun; although nowadays “they” is often transposed to refer to a person – male or female – rather than say he or she, which could sound a bit stilted or awkward when used in a sentence. Therefore, “they” is a gender-neutral pronoun! So, “when in Rome” – as they say – why not go along with the flow? It’s a lot easier in this insane world rather than kicking up a big fuss and ending up being in bother!😊
@mass: You do not undesratand ‘why not calling a boy or a girl as “they” is an act of discrimination’?
I’ll tell you: There is a secret law that says ‘All teachers must do their best to destroy grammaticality. So when there is a chance to abuse the plural pronoun “they”, you abuse it like hell, or else!’
Well done, Enoch Burke! Stay strong. Hundreds of thousands of teachers are immensely grateful to you. So, surely, are parents.
Not meaning to be unkind or disrespectful to Enoch Burke, one might say, in this case, he is perhaps being a bit of a burke to land himself in this unfortunate mess by going against the grain😒
Bless this man for standing up for right, surely there is a higher court to correct this insanity.
Actions not words indeed!
In that religion women are pretty worthless and came from the rib of a man, the God is male, and Jesus and all the Apostles are, all the priests historically are, so a boy wanting to encompass the other sex should be normal. My advice is to recognise two Gods, one of each sex, or else you are in an unsustainable asymmetry. Celibate priests nearly attempt this already
The judiciary and the cop rottweilers as with ALL of the politicos and MSM whores in my country are totally corrupt and simply do what their (((overlords))) tell them to do.
There is only ONE courageous journalist working in Ireland. Her name is Gemma O’Doherty ( https://www.gemmaodoherty.com/ ) and she tackles the institutionalized child abuse and pedophilia which are endemic within the ranks of the top dogs in Ireland, the deliberate replacement of the Irish people by turd world enrichment and is not afraid to tackle the issue of the holohoax. She is the bravest woman in Ireland.
Rothschilds-Rockefellers communist
brain + culture decomposing satanical
illuminati-freemason perversion trys
to destroy inteligence + common law .
kill the ratschilds+rockefellers and the
world will recover !
Sadly soon this won’t be news..it will be the norm
That said.. submit
“Hey (((Judge))) ….. I identify as a CANNIBAL…your ass is mine,… literally and figuratively..”
OR..the teacher should identify as a dead person..and continue to collect his paycheck.
Wouldn’t surprise me if this was pre-planned , a set up in order to establish legal precedent . I think some of the cases of imprisonment of holocaust deniers in Germany fall into the same category . They also make an example of these people as a warning to others not to challenge these edicts.
@ Brian USA
Told a woman the same thing. Always use first name to avoid problem. She has a daughter whose friend wants to be called some nonsense gender neutral pronoun. Daughter is on board with the agenda and warned the mother ahead of time to use the pronoun chosen by girl.
Doesn’t he know? ‘Salvation is from the Jews’ (John 4:22)
lol
These Pronoun types…
I wouldn’t humour them…I would look them in the eye and talk to them…this implies your focus is on them and concurrently you are not willing to get dirty knees kissing their ass. AS far as I know “silence” can’t be deemed a hate crime etc.
These people are a combination of INSANE and SELFISH….like the pro- vaxxers who feel their choice should also be imposed on you.
Black is white. Up is down. The sky is orange. Your mother is a tree. Believe it or else!
How much longer must we tolerate this war on truth coming from the certifiably insane?
Reality is what it is, and to claim it’s something else is lunacy.
Peace vrs. Revolution
Principles vrs. Pragmatism
That is the real court case going on now in many minds these days. Real leadership may be just around the bend where even Christians say “Enough! It is time to fight them with everything we have.”
What is the tipping point of the scales of justice in the human heart to motivate action? Dare they continue with their impositions to cause widespread privation with their predicted great economic crash as a result of our alleged audacious debt bubble, and will they with in their top-down deceptions actually harm their own economic infrastructure? No, not really. They know they are lost if the masses revolt, and they cannot afford to ruin too many corporate enterprises.
Rather for us, what the have ordained is a slow death of our basic rights and liberties. Presently they are gobbling up more and more control and ownership from the middle masses to further enhance their own powers and to effect their NWO powers over us, which they have planned over the past 50 years. Still they have gone too far, and it is most certain that they are at this time institutionalizing their wickedness throughout all of our institutions. Unless there is a great awakening and a real resistance things will only become more and more insane.
So, go ahead your monsters from the dark and continue to tear down what we know to be good and upon that which our civilization was built. Continue to tear it down to build your brave new world order and see if we will go quietly into your night. Go ahead you who listen to that source who says you can use any violence from the resistance to your advantage. What you miss is that in the future you are revealing you have killed the real purpose, security and joy of life itself. That is what the light of truth is telling more and more people.
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
……
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.”
However, Hamlet comes back converted and changed. He neither kills himself or murders the wicked Claudius step-father king unjustly ruling his domain. Claudius is dispatched by the sword of Hamlet upon the exposure of his treachery in poisoning Hamlet.
The wicked use of stealth and a variety of hidden poisons in order unjustly to get power and to maintain it, is the hallmark of the present power structure of the world. The just do not use secret and hidden methods to gain their ends over those they are meant to serve, whereas that is exactly how we are being ruled. The just do not deceive and exploit their subjects and they are open as to their intentions. They do not use subversion and poisons to the mind and body. They do not conspire to harm subjects they pretend to serve but actually despise. Rather they openly use the clean sword of justice thrusting it through the heart of evil and all wicked rulers in order to end their wrongs.
For the crimes against humanity this top-down order running our nations has committed, real justice demands that they all be arrested, tried in courts of the people and publicly executed.
The Church of Ireland is not Irish, it’s the church of the ‘British’ occupiers in Ireland, the masons.
‘Enoch Burke’ does not look Irish and his name is almost certainly fake. Enoch is an anagram of Cohen.
To the tedious, pestiferous liar NicoX, Aliester, Joker or whatever else you go by, what were the Christ-killers calling themselves two thousand years ago? Better yet, how do you reconcile the KJV subverted text John 4:22 with 8:44? You can’t. Rather than answer the question you will stupefy with repetition and prevaricate. Jesus called them liars and murders from the beginning. Almost all versions of the bible have been subverted at the behest of the Christ-killers. Words such as World, Nation, Love, Circumcision meant something else two thousand years ago. Lucky for you that the Christ-killers have destroyed Christianity. Heretics and blasphemers were burned at the stake and the ones who now call themselves Jews were tagged with pointy hats so Christians could see them for what they were. You and your festering feces consuming pervert Aliester Crowley would be lifting your skirts and running for your lives right back to their filthy lair, the Synagogue of Satan.
Had this man realized that he is NOT the trustee to the estate, but instead the beneficiary, and thus all presumptions and assumptions of his incompetence would have been void. The “judge” would have kept his mouth shut and nothing would have come of it. Ignorance is NOT bliss, it IS torture.
He is the priority security interest holder in the account(charge).
Under the European Convention of Human Rights , article 14 on discrimination I suspect that the initial changes against this man are illegal.
To the Christian dog ‘Bob Smith’–I’ve already explained John 8:44 on here before. Jesus is in some dispute with his fellow Jews who don’t recognize him as the ‘messiah’ so he claims they’re of the ‘devil’. Yet these Jews (John 8:48) claim that Jesus has a ‘demon’.. So what Jew do you believe? lol…Thus, what we’re dealing with here is some Hebrews arguing about who is of the ‘devil’. That’s all its about, but you lack the intelligence to comprehend this…..But hey, if you want to believe in some rabbi religion that teaches ‘Salvation is from the Jews’ that’s your stupidity/lunacy..
The church if Ireland, England Catholic church of SATAN have NEVER been about Christianity they have been money making machines for the Globalists…..Charities MY ASS!!……………Keep GOD in your HEARTS and dont EVER give a penny to these Blood Sucking Satanist that are run by the NWO
Whatever deranged judge signed-off on the teacher being imprisoned for such an absurdity deserves to be thrown into the street, stripped naked, vigorously horse-whipped, then hosed with pig piss. The deranged student deserves a thorough beating as well.
Burke said: “Transgenderism is against my Christian belief. It is contrary to the scriptures, contrary to the ethos of the Church of Ireland and of my school.” .. Well I couldn’t really give a lazy f*ck about the book of Jew bullshit “scriptures”, but transgenderism sure is contrary to biology, sanity, and reasonable behavior.
To the pestiferous liar and intellectually inert Nico X, Aliester, Joker or whatever else you are calling yourself this week, answer the question that was asked: What were the Christ-killers calling themselves two thousand years ago. Answer the question without evasion, it’s a simple question for a simpleton like you. I skip your brutally insipid comments unless directed at me so I have no idea what mindlessly repetitive rote you sent to anyone else. Unless you are repeating the ideas of intelligent men, by which I do not mean the pervert Aliester Crowley, you come across as an obsessive weirdo. On top of everything else, you’re a bore. Here, you used a different name, Joker, that’s why I read it. Perhaps you use different names as the Christ-killers change their names when everyone sickens of their lies and perversions. The identity thieving money-lenders do the shape-shifter switch where they are us and we are them and all the heinous crimes they commit are ours since we didn’t stop them. Thus necessitating frequent name changes for evasion and future shape-shifting.
@Nico X
So, I guess you are saying there is no heaven or hell, nothing is either good or evil, and doing wrong needs to repentance or restitution. Sounds like we are better off with salvation from the Jew Jesus as no one else is offering anything comparable.
Nico X
Do you believe the Devil isn’t real?
I have very special place in my heart for Ireland – the last bastion of Catholic faith in Northwest. Or, at least it was until 2000s. I love Irish people for their courage and rebellion but what is up with their Motherland now? This is going to be worse and worse.
jew communist culture decomposing
brings europa back to witch hunters
times 500 years back . wonderful !
my aim is STONEAGE !
One thing I’d criticise this brave teacher for is his insistence on using the word “belief”.
Facts are facts, and belief doesn’t come into it. The PERVERTS persecuting him for refusing to humour their delusions are denying basic reality.
One doesn’t help the mentally deranged by pretending their distorted perceptions are real.
Someone might believe he’s a rubber ball that will bounce if dropped from a great height, but belief doesn’t make it so, as he’ll very quickly discover if he decides to test his irrational belief.
With very few exceptions, people are MALE or FEMALE. That’s it. I’m aware of a hermaphrodite living in the Worthing area, but such cases are extremely rare.
Can’t you see this is about insanity of this system. A man is a man , and a woman is a woman. If we don’t follow this we will find our self in mental disorder.