A teacher in Ireland is back in court fighting for his right to follow his religious beliefs, and a judge is now vowing to keep him in jail through Christmas.

Enoch Burke says he was fired from his position at Wilson's Hospital School in 2022 after Principal Niamh McShane demanded he use the "they/them" pronoun for a male student. Burke says he refused, was subsequently suspended, and later dismissed.

Burke has fought the decision not only in court, citing that it violated his constitutional rights and religious beliefs, but he has, on several occasions, attempted to return to the school grounds to teach.

"I have a right to work. I'm on the payroll. I'm a teacher of German history," he recently told the Irish Mirror in August. "Teachers are being instructed to teach this and to tell chi

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