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"Ask God What Your Grade Is"
Jonathan Lopez, a student who was shouted down by his professor when he defended Proposition 8, is suing LA City College, with the help of the Alliance Defense Fund. We heard it first from David French at Phi Beta Cons:
Shortly after election day, one of Lopez's teachers told his speech class that any individual who voted for Proposition 8 was a "fascist bastard" and argued that supporters of traditional marriage valued animals more than people. A few weeks after this declaration, Mr. Lopez gave a speech (in response to an open-ended assignment) in which he discussed his Christian faith and read from a dictionary definition of marriage. His professor interrupted his presentation, called him a "fascist bastard," invited offended students to leave, and then (when no one left) terminated the class. Rather than grade his speech, the professor told Lopez to "ask God" what his grade was...When Lopez complained to the dean and the professor threatened Lopez with expulsion.
The story has now made mainstream media with an article in the Los Angeles Times and NBC.com. The article in the Chronicle of Higher Education leaned against Lopez, emphasizing quotes from the college dean, who said that Lopez’s speech was offensive to other students in the class (although no students were offended enough to accept the professor’s invitation to leave).
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