Ireland: It is possible to be arrested for one pronoun and even multiple times
Can you be arrested for using one pronoun instead of another in school? Yes, and this happens in Ireland. A teacher who had been jailed after refusing to use the gender-neutral pronoun of a transgender student and ignoring his suspension from teaching again refused to comply with a court order banning him from his school.
Enoch Burke, an evangelical Christian, told the Irish High Court that complying with the injunction banning him from teaching in his school after refusing to address a transgender student with the term "they" would "violate my religious beliefs and denied my God ”.
Burke, who spent two nights in a Dublin jail for contempt of court, told the judge today: " I can be a Christian in Mountjoy prison or I can be a pagan who accepts transgenderism outside of it ." The teacher will remain in Mountjoy prison for at least another week after refusing to comply with the court order.
Burke, who teaches history and German, was suspended from his Westmeath school for refusing to address the transitional student with the term "they" instead of "he", as requested by the pupil and his parents. in May and accepted by the Church of Ireland school. The teacher was then arrested Monday morning and jailed for violating a temporary court order forbidding him to teach at Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath or to be physically present there.
Mr. Burke had refused to be absent from school on paid leave, as the court ruled, and allegedly sat in an empty classroom, claiming to be there to work. So even though he violated the order not to enter the school, he didn't actually violate the ban on teaching.
Burke was back in court today and the school's board of directors got an interlocutory injunction renewed banning the teacher from teaching in the school. The prisoner told the court that he has no intention of complying with court orders: " If this court decides, I will never leave Mountjoy prison if in leaving it I violate my well-formed conscience and religious beliefs and disown my God. , I think I can be a Christian in Mountjoy prison or a pagan and respectful of transgenderism outside of it. I know where my place is “.
It had been a long time since anyone in Europe had been jailed for their religious beliefs, despite having behaved in a non-violent way. As you can see, we are making ethical steps forward with the EU.
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