Sometimes it’s best to just keep your opinions to yourself. Especially if you are a college professor at a publicly funded school and if your views are likely to offend many of your students.

Dr. Bradley Lopez taught a health sciences class at Fresno City College. Students recently complained that Lopez was using the Bible as a textbook, citing it to explain global warming and to rebuff homosexuality. Lopez claimed homosexuality is a mental disease and that homosexuals should have to undergo psychotherapy.

Lopez assigned readings from the Bible as homework, read the Bible out-loud, and used “the Bible as an authority in the assigned subject matter,” according a report issued by the Vice President of Student Services, Christopher Villa.

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