LOS ANGELES - A college student has filed a lawsuit saying a public speaking professor berated him in class for making a speech opposing same-sex marriage.
In the federal court suit filed last week, student Jonathan Lopez said that midway through his speech, when he quoted a dictionary definition of marriage and recited a pair of Bible verses, professor John Matteson cut him off and would not allow him to finish.
He said the professor also called him a "fascist bastard."
A student evaluation form included with the lawsuit lacks a score for Lopez's speech, and reads "ask God what your grade is." [snip]
In a letter, Dean Allison Jones wrote that she had met with Lopez, considered his complaint "extremely serious in nature," but that two students were "deeply offended" by the speech, and quoted one as saying "this student should have to pay some price for preaching hate in the classroom." [snip]
"Basically, colleges and universities should give Christian students the same rights to free expression as other students," David J. Hacker, an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal organization that is representing Lopez, told the Los Angeles Times.
Lopez and his attorneys are seeking financial damages and want the court to strike down a code at Los Angeles City College forbidding students from making statements deemed offensive.
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[And what about those who find support of gay marriage offensive? Obviously, their sensibilities don't count. The 'price' this student should pay for an unpopular {although the passage of prop. 8 suggests otherwise} view is unpopularity - anything more is fascism {in this case, of the liberal variety}.
This is particularly troubling to my mind that it's our 'institutions of higher learning', where you'd think the power of arguments - and the right to make them - would hold supreme. But liberal indoctrination has supplanted genuine differing-discourse within US academia at all levels.
Extreme statement? Consider > ]
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