Felix Ngole, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said he was expressing a traditional Christian view and complained that university bosses unfairly stopped him completing a postgraduate degree.
But Deputy High Court judge Rowena Collins Rice has ruled that university bosses acted within the law following a High Court trial in London.
Mr Ngole had argued that his rights to freedom of speech and thought, enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, had been breached.
But lawyers representing the university argued that he showed ”no insight” and said the decision to remove him from the course was fair and proportionate.
They said Mr Ngole had been studying for a professional qualification, adding that university bosses had to consider his fitness to practise.
Judge Collins Rice said freedom of religious discourse was a public good of great importance.
But she said social workers had considerable power over the lives of vulnerable people and said trust was a precious professional commodity.
She said that after weighing the facts of this case she decided to dismiss Mr Ngole’s claim for judicial review.
Mr Ngole posted comments two years ago, when in his late 30s, the judge had been told.
He was taking part in an debate on a Facebook page about Kim Davis, a state official in the US state of Kentucky, who refused to register same-sex marriages.
Mr Ngole said he had argued that Mrs Davis’s position was based on the “Biblical view of same-sex marriage as a sin”.
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