Enoch Burke turns up to school again despite sacking - read OP before posting

Martyrdom is the driving force behind it all. It's the reason for all the theatrics. His strain of Evangelical Christianity isn't out to convert people to their cause - they believe in pre-destination, that it is already decided who will be saved in the final judgement. What does matter to them, however, is the visible and unrelenting battle against what they see as the "forces of Satan", that is anything that goes against their very strict and literal interpretation of the bible (even other Christians). Being unpopular, losing a job or a court case or being jailed doesn't matter - in fact, they're badges of honour - because they firmly believe that they are fighting a war on God's side, and that their victory is inevitable.

Here's how Burke signs off his introduction to his 2020 self-published book "The Hedonism and Homosexuality of John Piper and Sam Allberry: The Truth of Scripture":

Just as I suspected: He doesn't give two shites about the students.

He's just intent on being a nuisance and hoping someone will snap at him so he can play the victim. He is a pathetic excuse of a person. I hope he gets arrested now. I don't understand how anyone can think this isn't intimidating behaviour and that his stance should somehow be championed. This has gone far beyond the original principle.of the matter. He's just an obnoxious, self-centred attention-seeker.

It's interesting that the school tried to go this route. Whether they'll succeed or not is another matter. From what I've read, this hasn't happened to an individual before so legal precedent might make it tricky. It suits him and his family down to the ground to have him in prison. I assume they want him to be re-arrested and to kick the cycle off again?

Do we? i dont know what circles you are referring to.

For years to come we're going to be hearing about how Burke is unable to find work as a teacher due to the fact he stood up for what he believed in and was shot down by the woke, Marxist, authoritarian system that is anti free speech and persecutes religious people, even though no principal in their right mind would employ him after this circus and the Burke's are as censorious as they come.

Or Sacha Baron Cohen? now that would be good!

According to this tweet the Gardai have turned up at the school. I wonder did he actually enter the building?

https://twitter.com/nicole_gernon/status/1617844141723103232?s=20&t=LXUXNShNb_0WfnLE6NmKOw

Being arrested and returning to custody (I assume) is exactly what he wants. It goes to show there aren't many tricks in the legal playbook when you have somebody who actively wants to be imprisoned.

I wonder who's funding them? Are they getting money from American conservatives who'd hold similar views? Plenty of American money was pumped into the Retain the 8th campaigns when we had that referendum a few years ago. A figure like Enoch is manna for people on one side of the culture wars. It doesn't matter that he ran into problems for how he behaved at work and all that came after it. It's playing to conservatives as a victimised teacher who lost his job because he didn't want to call a boy a girl.

No Garth Brooks concerts on at Croke Park at the moment that you can listen to for free in the Joy- U2 might play but that will be late summer I’d say

True, but just because he wants it to happen doesn't mean that it should't be done. The legal system is about blind and equitable justice, not second-guessing the strategies of publicity stuntman.