The Irish teacher will spend Christmas in the hoosegow because after being fired for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns he continued showing up for work.
In the famous words of Daffy Duck:
Breitbart: A man who has been in jail since September will reportedly spend Christmas in prison after refusing to refer to one of his “transgender” students using their preferred pronouns.
Enoch Burke, a teacher from Ireland, had requested to be released from prison ahead of Christmas during a sitting of the country’s High Court on Tuesday.
Burke had initially been jailed back in September after an incident where he reportedly refused to use a “transgender” pupil’s preferred pronouns, which eventually led to him ignoring a court order that he stay away from the school he taught in.
Although the teacher reportedly claimed that the order flew in the face of his religious freedom, the High Court reportedly refused to consider this line of argument, before ordering that the teacher be jailed until he purges his contempt.
So far however, Burke has remained steadfast in his claim that the court order violates his religious freedoms, with the Irish Independent reporting the man as asking the sitting judge to release him in consideration of the religious significance of this time of year.
“I would beg of this court to free me from this prison,” Burke reportedly told the court, insisting again that the court’s order that he stays away from his school flies in the face of his religious freedom as guaranteed by the Irish constitution.
“I believe in the courts system and I believe in the administration of justice,” he remarked. “But when I am commanded by the court to accept an order that denies me my religious freedom, I cannot in all good conscience comply with that.”
“The fact of the matter is I was requested by principal Niamh McShane that it was expected of me to participate in transgenderism and to call a 15-year-old boy ‘they’ or ‘a girl’,” he continued. “It is something I cannot do in all good conscience as it goes against my religious beliefs.”
“I am not a thief. I am not a murderer. I am not a drug dealer. The reason that I am in prison today is because I refused to leave the school I worked in when I was suspended solely on account of my religious beliefs,” he went on to say.
The judge refused the request. The court told him not to go to work. He went to work. So the court is attempting to sidestep the religious freedom aspect of the case and focusing solely on the “you didn’t do what we told you to do” aspect of the case.
But the case isn’t even a case if his religious freedom wasn’t being violated.
This man is being used as an example.
Back in the olden days, they’d execute enemies and/or criminals and then place their head in a public place on a pike as an example or warning to others. If you cross us or the law the same will happen to you. This is similar.
This is head on a pike politics. If you cross the LGBTQ agenda you will pay a price. They may not win the court case eventually but they’ll win the politics because people will then be too scared to cross the LGBTQ agenda.
December 15, 2022 at 2:14 pm
So for not seeing 5 fingers, and believing fully that there are 5 fingers…we are punished. Not that long ago everyone said this will never happen. We just want to be treated fairly. Who called BS on this? Everyone.
December 15, 2022 at 3:58 pm
“Not that long ago everyone said this will never happen.”
Because most of us did not think insanity and the demonic would be the prevailing spirits in this world.
December 16, 2022 at 11:40 am
Ireland, like most Western first world countries, are so open minded their brains have fallen out.
December 16, 2022 at 4:21 pm
How is this about religious freedom? It’s about basic respect. What if the student (or any student or any faculty member) decided to refer to the teacher as “she?” Would they have a right to assert a random religious belief as an excuse to do so? Last I checked, using preferred pronouns does not constitute a sin or require confession.
December 16, 2022 at 5:34 pm
Then you need to do some fact checking. It’s blasphemy to use “preferred pronouns” if they don’t match the gender as created by God and revealed by anatomy and DNA. Blasphemy is always a mortal sin and always requires confession.
December 18, 2022 at 1:07 am
Says who? What scriptural passage equates preferred pronouns with blasphemy? I’ve never heard of such nonsense. And what of religious communities that assign male names to nuns (I was taught by a nun we called “Sister David”) and female names to brothers (like St.Jose Maria)?
December 18, 2022 at 10:23 am
A name is not a grammatical construction meant to convey an objective truth. I really don’t think you believe your own propaganda any more than the young man believes he is now a girl. But insisting that everyone endorse your inane declarations is an assault on the rights of all individuals to perceive and defend truth. It is utterly demonic.
December 18, 2022 at 12:34 pm
Says the Catholic Church. Clearly you’re ignorant of Catholicism and its teachings. Of course the fact you’re self-referent makes everything you say of no value. I guess you never learned logic. Your loss.
December 18, 2022 at 12:07 am
There is no “right” to tell a lie about objective material reality and call a male man “she”.
And it is an egregious infringement of the right to free speech (not just freedom of religion) for the State to force a teacher to tell a lie about objective material reality and call a (singular) boy a “girl” or “they”.
December 18, 2022 at 1:10 am
What if one’s religion or religious belief says otherwise? If religious rights indeed trump all others, on what grounds could anyone be punished for choosing whatever pronouns his or her or their religious beliefs dictate?
December 18, 2022 at 1:36 pm
If YOUR beliefs defy objectivity and scientific fact and you are allowed to choose your own pronouns fine. Why should I be forced to live and participate in their pretend world? They are mentally ill. It’s an illness. You do NOT encourage someone who has cancer by pretending they aren’t ill. That is insanity. It is false compassion. By your logic should I be allowed to force someone to believe everything I believe as a Catholic to the point of prosecution if they don’t comply.
This has to stop. Innocent people are being hurt on both sides. Those who suffer under gender dysphoria need medical help, not being lied to. STop this.
December 18, 2022 at 10:17 am
The student in question is male. That’s objective reality. Asking anyone who believes in truth to tell lies is a violation of his basic human rights. You may or may not believe in the ridiculous argument you have put forward, but either way, it is essentially nonsensical to state it.
December 17, 2022 at 1:37 pm
So now Ireland is lost to Satan. How many more countries will follow the coffin of Saust?
December 17, 2022 at 2:34 pm
Sorry: Faust