Regardless of how you feel about gay marriage, this isn't the way an instructor should treat a student. Certainly not at a Catholic university, where more than 60 percent of the campus is Catholic, considering the Church's stance against gay marriage. And certainly not at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court still had not decided on this issue (the court did not rule on gay marriage until June 2015). By no means was everyone in agreement at the time of that conversation, and one could argue the nation still is divided on the matter.