Irish High Court Rejects Bid by Teacher Jailed Over Pronouns Row to End School Suspension

Irish High Court Rejects Bid by Teacher Jailed Over Pronouns Row to End School Suspension
Irish schoolteacher Enoch Burke (L) leaving the High Court, Dublin, to return to Mountjoy Prison on Sept. 14, 2022. Brian Lawless/PA Wire/PA Images
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An Irish evangelical Christian schoolteacher who was jailed for breaching a court order following his refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns, has had his bid to prevent the school from continuing his suspension rejected by a judge.

On Sept. 5, Enoch Burke was jailed after he defied a restraining order that ensued from a dispute with Wilson’s Hospital School in County Westmeath, Ireland, over a directive to address a student by the pronoun “they,” citing his devout Christian beliefs.

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