Westmeath school gets temporary injunction banning a suspended teacher from it's premises

You still don't understand that because of its position as a diocesan school it is somewhat special? It doesn't get to make its own rules independent of what the Church's position is (based on the bible by its own admission)?

BTW you seem to think that I agree with all the skyfairy stuff - I don't. I'm merely pointing out that Burke has plenty of ammunition to fight back with.

Whether you or I agree with him is not the point. It's the skyfairy stuff, you know?

This family are bullies. The parents are awful and their offspring are brainwashed.

Don't forget, where there's 'religion' there's always money. Without a doubt these have benefactors.

And a school doesn’t get to decide if they need to follow equality legislation. Do you think this school, or any school could refuse tuition to a gay student because it was against their religious beliefs?

In this case the school have clearly stated that their decision to recognise the child and parents wishes was grounded in equality legislation.

I also think that given the amount of time that has passed since the initial confrontation, the school has had plenty of time to discuss this with the CoI, we can only assume that the school has their support, otherwise they are unlikely to have continued on their path to remove Burke.

Putting aside the contempt of Court and some other issues is this an issue that could become more widespread

The school cite equality legislation as their basis for granting the students wishes but that same legislation should protect the teachers religious belief

An issue that could happen in any workplace in the future

Nuig education department. He fairly qualified as a teacher from there.

You trying to 're educate me'!!!!! So I see the error of my ways? :)

I've instanced two other situations where professionals - teachers and doctors choose not to do certain things on the basis of their conscience and religious beliefs. I don't see any big palaver being raised about their situations - they manage to do this and the 'system' works about them or doesn't work about them. They don't get fired or suspended or taken to court.

I'm not saying this chap is right or wrong. But he's certainly not unique in refusing to do certain things based on religious conviction. And can arguably expect to be treated similarly. Yes?

Not trying to educate you, just showing you that as private practitioners, you can’t fire a GP for not opting in.

If a hospital Doctor whose job it is to carry out terminations within the legislation refused to do so on religious grounds, contrary to what you think, they would be removed from their post.

Doesn't seem to be anything in support of him rejecting transgender issues or being held in contempt ot court that I can see. He'd also have to prove that the CoI trumps the school ethos if there's a disagreement and effectively get the CoI to support him.

The only way I can see him getting any ammo is if he says, "look, I went about it the wrong way, but the point was still valid" and then try and prove that transgender is against the CoI ethos. And I'm not even sure that that's doable.

Those Protestants. Up to no good as usual.

It's not up to him to decide what someone else's name is. What would he do if this student changed their name by deed-poll? Would he refuse to call them by their new legal name?

I've heard of a few fellas who had "Mary" as a second name. And some girls have what you might first assume are boys names.

The attention-seeking eejit is locked up now for contempt. Not for anything that went before it. What he did before is irrelevant. Once the court tells you to do something or to refrain from doing something, you either obey or suffer the result.