"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has advised a public community college in California it must end improper religious-based anti-gay instruction by a staff science professor.
The civil rights group alleges that Professor Dr. Bradley Lopez's introductory health class is more preaching than teaching.
The civil rights group alleges that Professor Dr. Bradley Lopez's introductory health class is more preaching than teaching.
Lopez, who teaches at Fresno City College (FCC), “presents religiously-based and anti-gay views as 'science' or 'fact',” the ACLU said in a statement.
Lopez is accused of giving lectures where he taught that being gay is a “biological misapplication of human sexuality” and said that the “recommended treatment” is “psychological counseling” or “hormone supplements,” presented gay men and lesbians as a threat to society, used Bible passages as “empirical” evidence that life begins at conception, and asserted that abortion is “the leading cause of death in this country.”"