Orange is the new Burke

That's not strictly true. His sister is a very popular school teacher in a Mayo school. There are 10 siblings. I've only heard of workplace issues with Enoch and Ammi.

Nonetheless they are religious zealots and do seem to struggle to live cohesively in secular society.

The sacking hearing is due in two (2) months time.

Tempting but probably counter productive in the long run!

Burke was dead right to question the kids "non-binary" status, featuring a new name & new pronouns they/them

It is not his job to do that, so again, he let his ideology interfere with his job. You might think he was right to do so, but you are also wrong, that is not what teachers are meant to do.

You've actually got that back to front. The Principal let her ideology overrule reality biology and the Christian ethos of the school, and you might think she was right but you are totally wrong, as the Principal should have no powers to bestow a special status to one student. On this issue Enoch was correct to reject her email. It was not the Principals job to compel teachers to affirm a "non-binary" status upon a child.

If he is confirmed as sacked does that give the school, the courts or the gardai extra powers to deal with him?

Not really. The school already has an injunction banning him from the property and we all know how that's worked out. There's not really a lot more that can be done to him from a legal perspective to keep him away. The only real difference would be that there'd be no more money being seized every month to go towards his fines. That may be evened out by the Department of Education not having to pay his salary any more, though I'm not sure if they've replaced him already or not. If not then his salary potentially may have to be spent on a replacement.

So now it is the Principles fault is it?

There was nothing to bestow, it was a simple request from the student to be referred to by a certain pronoun, Burke clearly has trouble being a decent human and has shown that ever since.

If it is not the Principles job to reaffirm things, it is sure as hell not Burkes to tell a person what pronoun they should be using, ya know, based off the balanced teachings of Christianity.

That family are an absolute scourge to anyone who has to deal with them.

This security guard manhandling Enoch would be just what he wants to happen.

The Principal let her ideology overrule reality biology and the Christian ethos of the school

Who told you that?

You're shifting the goal posts now. The original claim was they "literally always cause problems where they work". This is not true.

I'm not going to specifically name the siblings who have not had issues in work as it's unfair. But Google is free and you can easily find the names of all the siblings.

There is no denying that this family are religious fundamentalists and their ideas & methods are not shared by many in Ireland (including myself). But there is no need to make up stuff about them. They have also won several court cases where they have been correct in their legal assertions.

I think Enoch's current situation is entirely of his own making. I don't agree with his statement that he's been jailed for his beliefs on transgenderism. I think the school was entirely correct in their actions to prevent him entering the school. I think he was correctly (initially) suspended for his behaviour towards the principal.

I also think, had he rationally pursued a legal challenge against the schools request/demand to use preferred pronouns, he may have been successful. Whether it was a request or a demand would be decided by the court. However, it seems clear that Enoch is more interested in the "martyrdom" of his current stance - the Burke family are very legally savvy & they know how to challenge a decision. They've chosen not to do it correctly in this instance.

Exaggerating or lampooning their behaviour is unnecessary. The facts are there for us all to see. It's an important lesson to us all about the dangers of religious fundamentalism.

Exaggerating or lampooning their behaviour is unnecessary.

Lampooning their behaviour is unnecessary?

How did you come to that conclusion?

"it was a simple request from the student" …

Not sure of you're pretending not to understand, or if you really haven't got a clue?

Example: William now twelve, has been convinced by social media that he's "trans", and that he's neither a boy nor a girl, but something else in the middle like "Non-binary". He wants to be called by a new name (Fiona), he also wants to referred to by new pronouns (they & them) !!

The Principal of the school agrees to these demands and sends out an email to the teachers in this Church of Ireland school, telling them to comply, but Enoch quite rightly says NO it's not part of our Christian ethos, and it's certainly not part of Church teaching, so I'm not doing it.

The ideology of trans is all about bestowing and affirming new "genders" upon children, giving boys female pronouns, or giving girls boys names (with male pronouns), or in the Burke case affirming a child with the trans "Non-binary" status as per the teachings of gender ideology.

All of this is just based on a belief system, the belief that a child's sex is "assigned" at birth and that their true inner soul or "gender identity" may differ from that which was "assigned" to them. This is pure trans ideology. Not base in science or biology, but purely based on a belief system (that everybody MUST buy into), or else ……

The process of affirming & converting William into the non-binary (Fiona) is an act the Principal instructed the teachers to go along with, and Enoch said no ….

Enoch was totally correct, and I support him on this.

Leaving the Genesis of the story to one side, we are all well versed in all the drama that's happened since, but what next? What happens everyday as Enoch cannot get passed the security guard? Like what's his next move, or what's the schools next move? Off to the clink again? or more fines or what …….