News – California
Student: Prof berated me for gay marriage stance, Chicago Sun-Times.
A college student has filed a lawsuit saying a public speaking professor berated him in class for making a speech opposing same-sex marriage.
In the federal court suit filed last week, student Jonathan Lopez said that midway through his speech, when he quoted a dictionary definition of marriage and recited a pair of Bible verses, professor John Matteson cut him off and would not allow him to finish. He said Matteson also called him a “fascist bastard.”
A student evaluation form included with the lawsuit lacks a score for Lopez’s speech, and reads “ask God what your grade is.”
