Tue Sep 6, 2022 – 12:29 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A teacher in Ireland has been jailed as part of the fallout for refusing to address a student by a transgender pronouns.
Enoch Burke, a Christian and a teacher at Wilson’s Hospital secondary school in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath – which is a Church of Ireland school – was arrested on September 5 for contempt of court, in a case which has emerged from his refusal to call “a boy a girl” in the classroom.
RTE News reported that Burke was sentenced to Mountjoy Prison after breaking an injunction issued against him and will remain in prison for an unspecified period of time.
Burke is at the center of a disciplinary process which was begun against him after he refused to address a male student – reportedly in the process of “transitioning” – as a girl, and also refused to use the pronoun “they.”
Burke reportedly refused to comply with the school principal’s May 9 order to use the new name and pronoun and was consequently placed on paid, administrative leave August 22 while the school board held a disciplinary process.
Upon Burke’s continued attendance at the
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