The following comes from a November 10 Patheos article by Kathy Schiffer:
Robert Oscar Lopez grew up with two moms. Lopez, who is now a professor of English and Classics at California State Northridge, was raised by his lesbian mother and her partner. He was loved, but it was hard–he always felt like a misfit in society, and he didn’t learn the relationship skills that would have enabled him to fit in.
Lopez wrote a personal reminiscence about the problems he faced in a two-mother household, in an August 2012 essay in Public Discourse. His report dealt with his own feelings, and did not make the case against gay marriage or gay rights; nonetheless, he was immediately attacked by GLAAD and other gay and lesbian rights organizations.
In October 2014, he chronicled the gay rights movement’s effort to target him in an essay in First Things magazine. His personal narrative was, Lopez explained, re-categorized by LGBT activists as “hate speech.” Invitations to speak at college campuses were withdrawn; the Human Rights Campaign classified him as an “exporter of hate”; he’s received angry, obscene emails and voicemails.
Explaining his difficult childhood in First Things, Lopez wrote:
“Quite simply, growing up with gay parents was very difficult, and not because of prejudice from neighbors. People in our community didn’t really know what was going on in the house. To most outside observers, I was a well-raised, high-achieving child, finishing high school with straight A’s.
Inside, however, I was confused.”
Now Professor Lopez is apparently on the verge of being suspended without pay, ostensibly due to a conference, “Bonds that Matter,” that he organized a year ago.
Please sign the petition asking the Chancellor of the University to drop all charges against Dr. Lopez. Every time someone signs this petition, the Public Affairs office of Cal State receives an email.
Lets help him. This is discrimination. They are against free speech. Shame on them for trying to silence this man. Their actions against this professor only makes us wake up more and it encourages us to fight more. This is war. They mess with moral conscience, they will have to deal with our out cry and this only makes us be aware who really are the enemies of God and its those who want to silence God and His natural law. This professor is convicted justfully and the only way to heal from that confusion that he was forced to grow up in, is by good people coming to his aid!
I already signed this petition. I am so sorry for the mistreatment of this good professor! I think our medical and mental health experts, need to strongly corral the crazy, unstable, violent, “LGBT” radical leftists, and let everyone know, they are all MENTALLY SICK, with very excellent medical definitions! And next– they should NOT be taken seriously, by anyone at all– they should all be told “NO” and that their poor behaviors, will NO LONGER BE ACCEPTED!!
I agree Linda
the lgbt movement provides ‘justice’ swiftly and with no appeal, circumventing an array of procedural pathways and hearings that exist in universities to allow justice to find the truth and the balance. ‘who am i to judge’ is the standard for tolerance they want for themselves; for others, they judge with a first-strike ferocity.
As we have seen many times before, homosexual “tolerance” extends only to those who agree with their agenda. All others, not so much. Our society has degenerated to the point of allowing what was a disgusting felony to become cool and hip and demanding to be recognized as ” normal”. It is time to turn this around.
Hopefully, a Catholic college will offer Dr. Lopez a professorship!
Children Know that they have a Male (XY) Father and Female (XX) Mother – as the existence of http://www.donorsiblingregistry.com shows, and the ‘happy’ Thought Police Demand they deny it – or else.
The UC System is particularly vicious in its Misandry (Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality) and I have been targeted by their Secret Retaliation Pogroms.
The UCSB campus’ resident harpies from the ‘Womyn’s’ Center secretly contacted my employer demanding I be punished & silenced for daring to publicly object in a letter in the local paper – about the Student Newspaper publishing an ‘editorial’ – with a picture of a caucasian male with a pig growing out his forehead and the caption:
“I am a lying sexist, Cut open…
Next we’ll not be able to do ANYTHING without some group protesting. Like with the Gestapo, we’ll be constantly worried if we’re misbehaving. JayC
This man supports gay civil unions and gay foster care.
I recall reading an article several years ago by this professor about his upbringing. I was pleasantly surprised that he was part of our liberal state taxpayer funded school system. I was gratified that he was able to present his views.
Well so much for that.
Thank you, Professor Lopez, for your honesty. You have the right to express your thoughts. This is more evidence of the double standard when it comes to asking others for tolerance. The UC System is in essence, telling the now adult voices of innocent children, who have lived in same sex households, “You have no right to free speech.” This is proving all the more that children are being used as mere disposable bargaining chips to selfishly legitimize an agenda. Use them when they are helpless and voiceless but now punish them as adults if they truthfully share their thoughts about their own experience. This is a terrible injustice, cruelly hoisted upon the minds of innocent children who will one day be able to express their thoughts.
Thank you Professor Lopez for speaking the truth. You are courageous and May God Bless you!