Thu Dec 22, 2022 – 3:22 pm ESTThu Dec 22, 2022 – 3:22 pm EST
DUBLIN (LifeSiteNews) — A Christian teacher in Ireland who was jailed after he refused to use transgender pronouns has been released by order of the country’s High Court.
Enoch Burke, a teacher at the Church of Ireland Wilson’s Hospital secondary school in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath was released from Mountjoy prison by Ireland’s High Court in a ruling delivered Wednesday. Burke had been in prison for 108 days after he was arrested on September 5 for contempt of court, in a case which emerged from his refusal to call “a boy a girl” in the classroom.
Burke, a teacher of history and German, refused to comply with his school principal’s May 9 order to use a female name and pronoun for a male student who was in the process of “transitioning.”
Consequently he was placed on paid, administrative leave August 22 while the school board held a disciplinary process.
After Burke ignored this and continued to attend the school, he was then handed an interim order on August 30 to prevent him from entering the school. The teacher refused to comply with
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