Teacher Tells Students: Support Gay Marriage Or Leave My Class [VIDEO] If you are against gay marriage you are homophobic. This is what one Marquette University teacher had to say about her students refusal to agree with gay marriage. The teacher went as far to ban gay marriage discussion in her classroom, arguing that it might offend homosexuals in the class. We had a discussion on all of them except gay rights, the student told me. She erased that line from the board and said, We all agree on this. Well, as it so happened the student did not agree with instructor Abbate. So after class he approached the instructor and told her he thought they should have discussed the issue of gay rights. He also recorded their conversation without her permission. Are you saying if I dont agree with gays not being allowed to get married that Im homophobic? the student asked. Im saying it would come off as a homophobic comment in this class, the teacher replied. Regardless of why Im against gay marriage, its still wrong for the teacher of a class to completely discredit one persons opinion when they may have different opinions, the student said. Abbate disagreed. There are some opinions that are not appropriate that are harmful such as racist opinions, sexist opinions, she said. And quite honestly, do you know if anyone in the class is homosexual? The student said he did not know the answer to her question. Do you not think that would be offensive to them if you were to raise your hand and challenge this, she asked. At that point, the student told the instructor he had a right to challenge that thats my right as an American citizen. Actually, the teacher replied, You dont have a right in this class especially [in an ethics class] to make homophobic comments. The student retorted that the comments were not homophobic. This is about restricting rights and liberties of individuals, he said. Because theyre homosexual, I cant have my opinions? And thats when the teacher dropped the bombshell. You can have whatever opinions you want but I will tell you right now in this class homophobic comments, racist comments, sexist comments will not be tolerated, she said. If you dont like it, you are more than free to drop this class. So the student dropped the class. via Townhall.com 