Last night was the beginning of an excellent victory. Progressives are happy, conservatives, tea baggers, and Fox News are angry.
I'm almost tempted to stay home and see what Glenn Beck does in front of the camera. I already know that behind the camera, he is rubbing his hands with glee while visions of dollar signs dance in his head.
But the work of this blog goes on. And there are important lgbt issues happening now, such as
this one in California:
An instructor at Fresno City College who made anti-gay remarks is in trouble with the administration after students complained that he was using the Bible to teach his Health Sciences class.
Administrators at the publicly funded school promised to take appropriate action against Dr. Bradley Lopez, who told his students that homosexuality is a mental disorder and should be treated with psychotherapy.
Students also complained that Lopez told students to use the Bible to explain climate change, the genetic makeup of Jesus, among other study assignments.
Christopher Villa, vice president of student services, issued a report last week on the complaints.
“Dr. Lopez engaged in conduct that could result in the creation of a hostile learning environment by unreasonably interfering with students’ learning by making insulting comments directed at homosexuals,” the report said, noting that Lopez made statements “unrelated to any legitimate course objective.”
In the report, Villa said that Lopez had violated campus regulations prohibiting religious indoctrination “by assigning readings from the Bible, reading the Bible in class, and otherwise relying on the Bible as an authority in the assigned subject matter.”
“Instructors are not required to hide their own religious belief or non-belief, but they may not engage in religious indoctrination as Dr. Lopez did here,” the report said.
That's the story BEFORE Mat Staver and the Allied Defense Fund possibly get their psuedo holy hooks in it.
If and when they do, Lopez will be cast as the so-called latest "Christian whose faith made him a victim of the homosexual agenda."
Like
Crystal Dixon,
Patricia Mauceri, and
Peter Vadala
According to religious right groups, all of these individuals lost their jobs because "gays want to silence Christians."
But as the links tell, these folks went well beyond their free speech rights by either forgetting what they can or cannot say on the job or about their job or mistaking their power on the employment food chain.
Phony claims of being the victims of a "gay agenda" were immaterial in those cases, just like it is in this one.
Lopez should have remembered that he is paid to teach, not preach.
