Emails show author Sparks objecting to pro-gay 'agenda' Novelist Nicholas Sparks chastised a former headmaster at the faith-based school in North Carolina he runs for promoting a pro-gay 'agenda,' according to emails pertaining to an ongoing lawsuit

NEW YORK -- Emails filed in an ongoing lawsuit show novelist Nicholas Sparks chastised a former headmaster at the private Christian school in North Carolina he runs for promoting a pro-gay "agenda." Sparks denies he discriminates.

The emails, published Thursday by the Daily Beast and filed as exhibits in federal lawsuit in North Carolina, show Sparks complaining in 2013 about "an agenda that strives to make homosexuality open and accepted." The emails are part a case between Sparks and former headmaster Saul Hillel Benjamin, who alleges that Sparks defamed him. Benjamin headed the college-prep K-12 school for a few months before being forced out.

In a statement issued through his publicist, Sparks says the Daily Beast story repeats "false accusations" and noted that charges of discrimination originally in the lawsuit have been dropped.