Orange is the new Burke

As I parent myself, I have to admit that I also have some small bit of sympathy for the Burke kids. They have been utterly failed by their parents. Look at the latest on the 'conveyor belt', Elijah. He's graduated with a law degree and about to embark on his professional career. But he is seen on TV giving the future President a hard time. And in the last few days he has made a YouTube post criticising the High Court Judge that dared to have a bad word said about Enoch. Any CV he will send out when he is looking for a job will be filed in the waste paper basket. By my reckoning that is at least 40% of the siblings that are totally unemployable. And the blame for this rests at the feet of the parents.

I read somewhere that when you have a family cult, it takes one to break away first. I wonder who will be the first (if any)?

While obviously there are boys and there are girls, and that's it, this lad is imposing millions of costs on taxpayers, between the Gardaí, the Courts and the prison, so at this stage I want those costs reduced to zero.

Let him protest in his own time, at his own cost, yes, but at zero cost to the taxpayer.

I dont see many people here discussing the rights and wrongs of transgenderism on this thread so you are wrong to assume what peoples views are on that. And thats because most people are mainly concerned with the law. There are plenty of laws that people dont like but that doesn't give anyone permission to break them.

I don't know what point you are trying to make about boards by sarcastically calling it WONDERFUL. Its the same forum that allows you to freely express your opinion. Maybe you want a forum where everyone agrees with you but that's not how this one works.

I was aware it existed during my childhood.… Coronation Street literally introduced a transgender character back in the 90s. You'd be surprised by the amount kids are aware of regardless of if it's mentioned in the class room. And this is teenagers we're talking about btw..

It really does seem like she doesnt care about them or their futures. It would be interesting to see how she'd respond to a stint in prison herself. She may not be as ebullient when its her facing more time locked up.

Did the protest take place at Mount joy?

It did,but nobody noticed.

"On the other hand how do you deal with someone that's beyond reason?"

Maybe Grimey Burkey could volunteer for some electroshock therapy.

Yesterday at mass, our parish priest had a group of young primary school children participate in the ceremony. They said a few prayers, sang a hymn and lit a candle for advent. Usual stuff for the time of year.

Anyway, for his sermon he proceeded to use his speech to talk about the unholiness of puberty blockers, the unnecessary death of Charlie Kirk for standing up for his beliefs, the education system leaning towards unholiness in allowing the addition of more than 2 genders, the responsibility of parents in ensuring their children weren't indoctrinated in such ideals and finally the unlawful jailing of Enoch Burke for standing up for his beliefs. Pretty much a full support Burke family spiel.

Nothing to do with his beliefs, he can believe anything he wants. He was dismissed for misconduct at a meeting and jailed for ignoring a court order to stay away from the school.

But when have the the church had anything to do with facts.

I'm just relaying what he said, not supporting it. Anyone i talked to afterwards weren't happy with his sermon and the fact that so many younger children were present and felt it was a very inappropriate sermon for an advent mass.

Organised religion is probably the biggest curse on humanity - it does nothing but sow the seeds of hatred since over centuries.

Their own worst enemy. Much like the Burke's.

I go to mass most Sundays, I meet a few friends every Sunday after mass and we go for breakfast. Its a sort of ritual with us. I like my Sunday mornings. Anyway he is an outspoken man on many issues. Without naming him, I won't bother giving him any credit, he has made national headlines himself during covid for refusing to close his then church, in another parish, and conducting mass open to the public. He has a following and indeed still gets loads of outside people who come to his masses.

lol if Burke were to be included on the simpsons, he'd look pretty similar to Grimey. Although I'm pretty sure Burke doesn't like whores 😁