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

"It's a coeducational boarding school"

Tell me, what does co-educational mean exactly? That sounds sort of binary to me.....

That comes under "everything else snowballed". I agree with you. I'm not trying to rewrite reality.

Agree 100% with all of this except the last line. Burke has done a lot wrong, but all the wrong things he did were subsequent to the initial issue. Harassing people etc is not ok. But objecting to transgenderism being enforced with wrong pronouns should be allowed.

Not at all, but let me repeat and emphasise here again for the avoidance of doubt. Burke is a fool. His actions including accosting the principal and multiple breaches of the peace are frankly deplorable.

nobody has said otherwise.

But, was it though? Had he objected to the transgender request to use incorrect pronouns that he believed contradicted his religious beliefs but not accosted anyone or anything after that, would it all be ok? I don't think so. And that's the point that is missed here. We can't have thought police telling us what is or isnt ok.

To be clear again, I am a (militant at times) atheist. I do not support any forms of religion especially nutjob extremists like Burke.

That was not the argument put to me when I asked the question a few days ago on this thread. Excuse my laziness but it's a very fast moving thread and I can't be ar$ed going back to the posts in question but the issues initially centered around the "respect" needed to refer to a student as they instead of using the correct gendered singular pronoun.

You do realise Enoch Burke and his family are different entities? You can't take his parent's/family's property if it's Enoch that owes the money?

Except Enoch won't pay the money. Not a snowball's chance in hell. The State will have to pay its own legal costs and there'll be less money to fund LGBTQ+ communities and to fix the potholes in Mayo roads. Everybody loses. Except the legal team representing the State. They'll get well paid.

If he lives at home with his parents and its a location covered by a sheriff (eg Dublin, Cork) then they can enter and reposess items from that address to cover the debt. It would be then up to the residents to prove what was not owned by Enoch rather than the burden of proof on the state to prove otherwise.

Well in one of the quotes from the quote bubbles around Burke in the image below states -

'The secular agenda from those who excluded God from their imagination is to create a world devoid of moral restraint where people are free to indulge in their sexual lusts'

Which to seems to include all sexuality's where there is no moral restraint.

It is interesting that the current Pope on the Catholic side of the fence who many see as progressive. Has only recently reiterated that sexual intercourse outside marriage is a sin, in the eyes of the church.

But sure, hardly anyone follows those doctrines these days, people go a la carte instead.

Which is similar to another point Burke about his Protestantism above as well.

'Too many today are not serious in their commitment to the truth, to halt between two opinions is not remain convinced of neither'

Which would correlate to his annoyance that Wilson Hospital School are in effect not adhering to their Church of Ireland ethos.

The rest of the quotes show Burke is not seeking to be liked or expected to be liked. He just views it as part of the sufferance for his beliefs. He won't go along with modern fashions if they are inconsistent to his belief system.

'An absolute refusal to conform to worldly fashions'

He views it as he HAS to keep appearing outside the school as he would view himself as 'crumbling to the giants of pagan culture' to do otherwise.

It is likely he will keep turning up at those school gates and stay in jail if required -

'There is no room in Christendom for those who desire an easy life'.

Burke views those who claim to be Christians and sit it out on the sideline as not being true to their faith in 'the battle'.

This fella is in for the long haul.

Yes. Nobody forced him to refer to the child in any way. It would be entirely possible to go through your life without referring to a specific individual by a "pronoun". Pronoun in itself means a word you can use in place of a noun - "John, give that pen back to Mary now".

It has nothing to do with religion. It would be the same as if he was a fitness fanatic and the principal asked him not to refer to an overweight child in the school as "hippo-arse".