Ethics

LACC Speech Code Struck Down

By Ed Brayton

Here's a case where I fully agree with the Alliance Defense Fund. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the speech code for Los Angeles Community College after a professor there lost it on a student for giving a speech about his views on gay marriage in a speech class. Jonathan Lopez was a student in the speech class and they had to give a speech about an unspecified topic. He chose to give his speech about his Christian faith.

In the middle of the speech, when Lopez mentioned his opposition to gay marriage, Professor John Matteson stopped the speech, called him a "fascist bastard" in front of the class, and refused to let him finish his assignment. He then refused to give Lopez a grade for the assignment, writing "Ask God what your grade is" on the evaluation sheet.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 17, 2009 (boomark / email).