The deleted material, he said, focused not on “LBGTQ issues, but rather on the broader issue of sexual motivation — a topic that the faculty member concluded is sufficiently complex that it is better covered in a variety of other, more focused courses throughout the curriculum, rather than in this broad overview course to all of psychology.”

The subject matter removed from the introductory textbook is included in other psychology courses at Liberty, and the deletion saved students “significant amounts of money by eliminating unnecessary material,” he said.

“In this case, as in all cases, the faculty in charge of offering instruction in the course elected which modules to use and which to set aside as they reviewed the learning outcomes of the course and the process by which students develop over the course of their whole degree program,” Falwell said.

In the article, a student who asked not to be identified said the deletion of the material undermined the value of the course, and the student expressed concern that it followed a pattern of anti-gay bias at the university.