Source: Daily Mail (CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE)

• Enoch Burke was jailed after breaching a court order not to teach at his school
• He had been suspended after refusing to use a student’s gender-neutral pronoun
• Mr Burke appeared in court today to challenge school’s decision to suspend him
• He said he goes back to jail as a ‘law-abiding citizen. But God first’ 

A Christian teacher who was jailed following his refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns is back behind bars after again refusing to stay away from school.

Enoch Burke, an evangelical Christian, was returned to Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison where has been held for more than a week for breaching a court order not to teach at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath.

His school told him to stay away after he was suspended on full pay in August for refusing to address a transitioning student as ‘they’ rather than ‘he,’ citing his devout Christian beliefs, which he maintained are against transgenderism.

But Mr Burke ignored the order and continued to attend school, leading to his arrest.

At Dublin’s High Court today, Mr Burke, who was representing himself, maintained that he would not purge his contempt of court for violating the order, insisting that he was being persecuted for his faith.

He will now face a hearing at the High Court at a later date, which yet to be confirmed. He will remain in custody until then unless he changes agrees to abide by the order to stay away from the school.

In court today when asked by Judge Eileen Roberts if he would abide by the order, he said: ‘I cannot do that. I go back to jail as a law-abiding citizen of the state always. But God first.’

Mr Burke also failed with an application to try and get the suspension imposed against him by the school thrown out, maintaining that his opposition to transgenderism was based on his religious faith and that freedom of religion and conscience is protected by the Irish constitution.