A Fresno City College professor, Brad Lopez, is being accused by the American Civil Liberties Union of utilizing Biblical scripture to teach students in his Beginning Health classes that abortion is murder and that homosexuality is a disease.

Lopez has stated that he has free reign in a college setting, whereas he would not in K-12 schools.

The American Civil Liberties Union disagrees that Lopez has free rein in college, and Attorney Elizabeth Gill said the ACLU wants the college to tell Lopez to teach, and not preach. "We're asking Fresno City College to insure that all of its health instruction is unbiased and medically accurate and it needs to stop religious indoctrination from taking place in the classroom under both the Federal and State Constitutions."

In response to a letter the ACLU sent to the school, Fresno City College issued a written statement saying, "The College takes its non-discrimination and prohibition of harassment policies seriously, investigates alleged violations and takes appropriate actions to enforce compliance. Beyond that, we don't comment on personnel matters for confidentiality reasons."

Lopez uses the Bible as his primary source for teaching biology at FCC.

"He started out asking was Jesus haploid or diploid, a biological term and he directed us to go to the bible for proof and write a paper on it," said student David Chenoit.

Trying to figure out Christ's chromosomes may have been unusual, but student Jacqueline Maheffy said Lopez offended her and others when he said homosexuality was a disease. "I was very upset about the homosexuality part to think that this man would be telling me that my gay and lesbian friends which I have quite a few of are ruining the world, are degrading society."

The ACLU has given FCC one week to respond with a plan to correct the problem.