[6] He also ran a blog where he was accused of homophobia for comparing gay parents to slave owners and same-sex adoption to "the cultural genocide practices once used against blacks and Indians.
[6][8] Meanwhile, Lopez accused another administrator of comparing an event he had organized at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to a "KKK camp.
[3] The institute's closure was followed by accusations that one of its members, Katy Faust, had illegally lobbied against gay marriage in Australia and Taiwan.
However, Southwestern's decision was undergirded by Lopez's actions, which included failure to comply with basic administrative policies, being the subject of regular complaints from students and faculty colleagues, and, in the end, refusal to attend meetings with his supervisors.
[15] In contrast, Lopez claimed that Southwestern administrators fired him for his refusal to cut back on his rhetoric after having reprimanded him earlier for talking almost incessantly about homosexuality.