Thu Jan 26, 2023 – 11:09 pm EST
WESTMEATH, Ireland (LifeSiteNews) — A Christian teacher who refused to use the transgender pronouns of a student is facing a daily fine of €700 if he does not obey a court order barring him from attending the school he was fired from.
Enoch Burke, who spent 108 days in jail last year for his refusal to abide by the court order, was officially fired last week by the Church of Ireland (Anglican) Wilson’s Hospital School in Co. Westmeath, Ireland.
Responding to High Court Justice Brian O’Moore’s decision to fine the teacher €700 per day from Friday unless purges his contempt of the court order, Burke told reporters that the judge “wants to fine me for the profession of my religious beliefs.”
“What has become of us as a nation, to fine somebody for their religious beliefs?” Burke asked. “We’re at a time in this country where people are at their wit’s end, with the cost of everything as we know … and Brian O’Moore, a judge of the High Court, has sat down and said to himself that not only will you have to pay for all those
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