Is this the future: Offend homosexuality and loose your job?
Robert Oscar Lopez is a tenured
professor at California State University, Northridge, raised by lesbian
parents, who has become an outspoken supporter of marriage and the inherent
rights of children to know and be loved by their own mother and father. His is
the rare voice in academia willing to speak up for marriage and the rights of
children. This has made him a ferocious target of gay and lesbian activists
bent on silencing him.
Unless we act today to stop these activists, Professor
Lopez could face drastic punishment simply for facilitating a discussion about
the rights of children in marriage and family relationships.
The taxpayer-funded university where
Professor Lopez teaches launched an inquisition against him, claiming he
retaliated against students who complained of alleged "anti-gay" and
"anti-women" discrimination after voluntarily attending a conference
he helped organized at the Reagan Library. The conference was called,
"Bonds that Matter" and featured speakers discussing family issues
and the rights of children. When confronted with the results of a nearly nine
month secret investigation, Lopez was told by Susan Hua of the university's
"equity and diversity" office that attending a conference at the
Reagan Presidential Library was akin to appearing at a Ku Klux Klan meeting.
How outrageous! Attending an event at
the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is akin to attending a KKK rally?!!!
That should give you an idea of the bias of the office that conducted the
"investigation." Robert Oscar Lopez is a tenured professor at
California State University, Northridge, raised by lesbian parents, who has
become an outspoken supporter of marriage and the inherent rights of children
to know and be loved by their own mother and father. His is the rare voice in
academia willing to speak up for marriage and the rights of children. This has
made him a ferocious target of gay and lesbian activists bent on silencing him.
Unless we act today to stop these activists, Professor
Lopez could face drastic punishment simply for facilitating a discussion about
the rights of children in marriage and family relationships.
The taxpayer-funded university where
Professor Lopez teaches launched an inquisition against him, claiming he
retaliated against students who complained of alleged "anti-gay" and
"anti-women" discrimination after voluntarily attending a conference
he helped organized at the Reagan Library. The conference was called,
"Bonds that Matter" and featured speakers discussing family issues
and the rights of children. When confronted with the results of a nearly nine
month secret investigation, Lopez was told by Susan Hua of the university's
"equity and diversity" office that attending a conference at the
Reagan Presidential Library was akin to appearing at a Ku Klux Klan meeting.
How outrageous! Attending an event at
the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is akin to attending a KKK rally?!!!
That should give you an idea of the bias of the office that conducted the
"investigation."
The students who filed the complaint against Professor Lopez made
accusations about alleged statements at the conference such as "gay people
cannot be parents" and "women who use sperm banks are evil." One
student complained that he was so traumatized by the comments from conference
presenters due to their impact on his coming to terms with his sexuality that
he could no longer attend the class and received an "F." But
Professor Lopez was able to categorically refute the allegations made by the
students by producing a transcript that showed that none of the claimed
statements had been made by any of the conference presenters. In fact, there
was no mention of gay marriage or homosexuality at all except in a Q&A
period when the issues were repeatedly raised by the very students who filed the
complaint! And as for the traumatized student who ended up with an
"F" grade? Prior to the conference, he had missed 50% of classes and
completed none of the required assignments. And rather than coming to terms
with his sexuality, it was shown that for years this student was a prominent,
public activist with the university's LGBTQ group.
You'd think that with such flimsy "facts" to base an
investigation on that the university would drop the case and apologize when
Professor Lopez produced the evidence exonerating himself. But that's not what
they did. Instead, the university dismissed the original allegations but
brought new charges that he somehow "retaliated" against complaining
students. One of the students apparently felt that he did not nominate a paper
for an award, even though he gave the student an "A" in his class.
With this new charge now on the books, the university cited
"witness testimony" that Professor Lopez was never told about and
never allowed to respond to, and found him "guilty." Now they are
preparing his "punishment" which could include suspending him for
months without pay.
Can you believe this?!! Whatever happened to concepts of "academic
freedom" and "free speech?" Liberal professors have carte blanch
to teach students about all manner of leftist orthodoxy, including support for
gay and lesbian issues and alternative family structures, but a professor who
dares offer students a perspective that children have the right to know their
mother and a father is guilty of creating an adverse learning environment!
This is outrageous and we cannot let these taxpayer-funded university
bureaucrats get away with railroading a professor because he supports the right
of a child to know his or her parents.
