As was talked about on Queer Fresno last month there was an ACLU was officially protesting an instructor at Fresno City College saying, in part, that “lectures by Professor Dr. Bradley Lopez, who teaches an introductory health class, often present religiously-based and anti-gay views as ’science’ or ‘fact.’” Now Fresno City College has issued a rebuke, though no real action has yet to be taken:
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.
