Enoch Burke: Irish teacher in transgender row jailed for third time (news.sky.com)
from girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 01:30
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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.

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girlfreddy@lemmy.ca on 03 Sep 2024 01:30 next collapse

Ireland doing things the right way. \○/

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BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 03 Sep 2024 01:51 next collapse

“How dare I face consequences for harassment!”

eestileib@sh.itjust.works on 03 Sep 2024 01:55 next collapse

“religious freedom” mostly means the freedom to be a bigot.

xtr0n@sh.itjust.works on 03 Sep 2024 02:09 next collapse

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.

Deceptichum@quokk.au on 03 Sep 2024 04:06 next collapse

Didn’t you know religious mental illness deserves respect, more respect than actual human lives.

Glide@lemmy.ca on 03 Sep 2024 04:59 collapse

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.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 02:54 next collapse

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?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 06:12 collapse

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.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 06:16 collapse

This guy didn’t shoot anything up either, though.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 06:26 collapse

Not yet.

Many people who become active shooters will scout their targets before hand. especially, when they’re adults.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 06:29 next collapse

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.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 06:44 collapse

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.

khannie@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 13:32 collapse

We don’t really have that whole active shooter thing here tbh.

He doesn’t strike me as violent, just a self important cunt.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 20:00 collapse

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.

buttfarts@lemy.lol on 03 Sep 2024 03:14 next collapse

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”

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 09:22 next collapse

From the end of the Magdalane Laundries in the 1990s to prosecuting anti-trans bigots. That’s quite a progressive turn for a nation!

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 10:47 next collapse

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.

Vandals_handle@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 23:14 collapse

At my business selling board games I only use binary numbers. Just ones and zeros, no twos or threes. Checkmate atheists.

norimee@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 12:22 next collapse

“It’s my religious right to discriminate students that do not live up to the rules and standards of MY religion.”

lolcatnip@reddthat.com on 03 Sep 2024 21:04 collapse

Discriminate against.

norimee@lemmy.world on 03 Sep 2024 21:08 collapse

Thank you, grammar police. Nobody would have possibly known what I meant since I forgot a word.

lolcatnip@reddthat.com on 04 Sep 2024 00:38 collapse

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.

Trabic@lemmy.one on 03 Sep 2024 15:06 collapse

Is this just a way to get his mail delivered to his cell, since An Post won’t come to his house any more?