Teacher Enoch Burke, an evangelical Christian, was suspended after saying that using they/them pronouns for a transitional student was against his beliefs.
A teacher who refused to use a transitioning student's chosen pronouns, saying they went against his Christian beliefs, was jailed after ignoring a court order that barred him from entering his school's grounds.
"It is insanity that I will be led from this courtroom to a place of incarceration, but I will not give up my Christian beliefs," Burke, an evangelical Christian, said after a judge ruled he was to be sent to jail. The school then asked Burke to respect the student's gender identity, but Burke refused to do so, reportedly saying that a belief system was forced upon the school, its staff and its students that went against the teaching of the Church of Ireland. He also said being forced to respect a transitioning student using their preferred pronouns was in breach of his constitutional rights.
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