Enoch Burke was arrested by Irish police at Wilson’s Hospital School in County Westmeath today on Monday refusing to abide by a court order instructing him to stay away.
The school board had dismissed Burke from his post after a dispute over his refusal to recognise a transgender student’s new identity.
Burke was brought to the High Court in Dublin on Monday evening, where a judge ruled that he was in breach of the existing court order, and was to be returned to Mountjoy Prison.
Burke accused the court of denying him his religious rights, which included his belief in two genders, male and female. “This is a mockery of justice,” he told the judge.
“It’s my religious right to discriminate students that do not live up to the rules and standards of MY religion.”
Discriminate against.
Thank you, grammar police. Nobody would have possibly known what I meant since I forgot a word.
I’ve seen enough people omit that particular word that when I see it now, I assume they didn’t just forget a word, but that they don’t know better.
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“How dare I face consequences for harassment!”
“religious freedom” mostly means the freedom to be a bigot.
Burke accused the court of denying him his religious rights, which included his belief in two genders, male and female. “This is a mockery of justice,” he told the judge.
He can exercise his “religious rights“ to be a bigot, but not at the school and not as a teacher.
Didn’t you know religious mental illness deserves respect, more respect than actual human lives.
He can do his job while failing to understand or accept what a transgender student of his is going through, as long as he, you know, does his job, in which the act of respecting and protecting the rights of his students is a core requirement. Creating an environment where the student feels safe and accepted is base level requirement for being a teacher. Choosing to actively disrespect a student when they’re only asking for a completely reasonable, socially accepted courtesy is strictly not doing his job.
It is no one’s “religious right” to create a hostile environment for another, and to do so targeting a minor is abuse. It’s no wonder he was barred from the school.
Oh it’s the next Jordan Peterson.
When does he get hooked on benzodiazepines and give himself brain damage while trying a sketchy Russian detox method?
As an American…
I’m thinking Peterson never shot any where up so this guy is going a bit beyond that.
He returned to a place where he was terminated from a job for being an asshole.
I hope somebody is checking to make sure he’s not planing something violent.
This guy didn’t shoot anything up either, though.
Not yet.
Many people who become active shooters will scout their targets before hand. especially, when they’re adults.
I’m not sure where this conversation is going, but neither have shot anything up and this guy is going to be the next right-wing darling.
He is a far right political extremist. (Right or left doesn’t really matter here, only that he’s politically extreme.)
He’s also religiously conservative.
He was terminated for harassing a trans (or non binary?) kid.
He was presumably told to not return. He returned anyhow, or there was otherwise sufficient cause for a court to order him not to return.
Be returned anyway.
I’m saying this guy is a walking rack of red flags all of which suggest his attempt to gain entry wasn’t for peaceful purposes.
We don’t really have that whole active shooter thing here tbh.
He doesn’t strike me as violent, just a self important cunt.
Sure.
Which is why I prefaced my original comment as “as an American…”
I’d suggest, however, that that has way more to do with gun laws than a lack of assholes.
This guy is planning to make bank running the standard right wing grift of being yet another professional cry-bully who has been “woke-cancelled”
Ireland doing things the right way. \○/
Is this just a way to get his mail delivered to his cell, since An Post won’t come to his house any more?
From the end of the Magdalane Laundries in the 1990s to prosecuting anti-trans bigots. That’s quite a progressive turn for a nation!
My religion says two plus two is three. I will therefore knock 25% of any bill I receive. If you object, I’ll sue you for religious discrimination.
At my business selling board games I only use binary numbers. Just ones and zeros, no twos or threes. Checkmate atheists.
