Enoch Burke—a controversialIrish teacherwho refused to accepttransgender rights—has landed inprisononce again for refusing to stay away from the schoolhe was sacked from.
“When I am commanded, when I’m told that I can’t have my religious belief anymore, when I’m told I have to confess belief intransgenderism, instead of my simple belief, which is male and female, that’s just a breach simply of my rights,” he toldSky Newsat the school gates prior to his arrest.
The history and German teacher has been persistently defying an injunction that barred him from entering Wilson’s Hospital School in Multyfarnham, County Westmeath—aschool that dismissed himlast year.
Since the start of the new term last month, he has been showing up at the school and claiming it is his “moral duty” to be there.
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Enoch was arrested on Monday, September 2, for breaching the injunction that ordered him to stay away from the school.
He was sent back to the Mountjoy Prison, where he had already spent 400 days over the last two years.
The school had asked the former teacher to refer to the student as “they,” but Enoch refused to comply and claimed it was against his religious beliefs.
He was eventually released, only to be imprisoned again in September 2023 for continuously returning to the school despite the court’s restrictions.
He was captured condemning law enforcement officials for trying to arrest him on Monday, September 2
BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilson’s Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology.
Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest.
TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child…pic.twitter.com/Ni8xLSRS7a
— Enoch Burke (@EnochBurke)September 2, 2024
While the school holidays were going on, Enoch was released from prison once again in June. A couple of months later, he was arrested this week for the third time.
Before his arrest, the anti-trans rights supporter said he would continue to show up at the school.
When questioned about his experience in prison, he told the outlet: “I detest prison. It’s a horrible, sad place. It’s a terrible place to be behind a door for 18 hours a day. But the issue is, prison is for people who break the law, and in this case, I’m here doing my moral duty.”
“This is where I should be today. I’m standing up for my rights, for what I believe in,” he said while speaking on the school grounds. “This isn’t a crime. It’s not an offense being here.”
The defiant teacher’s family members and supporters have staged protests on different occasions over his arrest
He asserted that it was his “duty” to be at the school because he has a “God-given” right to hold on to his beliefs about transgenderism.
“It’s my moral duty to be here,” he told the outlet. “Because it would be wrong for me for one moment to accept that I do not have God-given rights, that I do not have rights, including the right to my beliefs as everyone in this country has,” he continued. “And what it’s about that it’s about transgenderism. It’s about a belief.”
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