Seminary professor fired for beliefs on homosexuality: complaint
ATLANTA, September 12, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A theological professor at an African- American Christian seminary has complained to federal anti-discrimination officials that he was fired based on his conservative views, particularly his stance against homosexuality . Rev. Jamal-Dominique Hopkins. Rev. Jamal-Dominique Hopkins told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a filing last month that administrators at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) had begun mistreating him after attendees at an event he organized were given a book that called homosexual activity sinful. “It was primarily the book that created an issue,” Hopkins, 42, told Religion News Service . After he was confronted by his department chair, Rev. Margaret Aymer, Hopkins said administrators began criticizing his conservative religious ideals, “intimidating me, slandering my character, giving me poor evaluations, and changing student grades from failing to passing with no merit.