Writing about Enoch Burke has become one of those things that a sensible person should really know better than to do. This is for the simple reason that there are only really two ways of seeing his case: On the one hand, people like me who see his continued imprisonment as a mess of his own making – it being a simple statement of fact that Mr. Burke could leave prison tomorrow and return home, if only he agrees not to attend a school where he is no longer wanted and no longer employed.
On the other hand, people – including a vocal subset of readers – who see Burke as a hero who has done nothing wrong except that he refused to bend the knee to a state which, as they see it, is trying to compel both him and everybody else to accept the central tenets of what Burke calls “transgenderism” or “transgender ideology”. They see Enoch Burke as a paragon of courage and resilience, willing to take what the state throws at him and endure it on principle. There is, whatever your view of him, no doubting that Mr. Burke is both courageous and resilient. It is not those two aspects of his character that the rest of us doubt.
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