LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- The editor of a college student newspaper says he was forced to resign because of censorship of stories about gay rights and other issues that may conflict with Roman Catholic doctrine. Darren Foster, editor of The Lumen at Viterbo College, said Saturday he was subjected to "emotional pressure" not to run stories on controversial issues such as gay rights, birth control and abortion. Newspaper advisor Lyon Evans said he disagreed with Foster about so-called advocacy journalism and recommended that certain stories not be published. But he said he never censored the newspaper. "I told Darren that advocacy journalism is an important part of the history of journalism. But it's not compatible with being the editor of a mainstream student newspaper," Evans said. The Roman Catholic liberal arts college has an enrollment of 1,200. Foster, 26, a gay rights advocate, has been an outspoken critic of the military's policy on gays. The pre-law junior and his companion recently announced plans to challenge Wisconsin's law prohibiting same-sex marriages. Peter Fletcher, an art professor and member of a publications board overseeing the student newspaper and a literary magazine, contended Foster used The Lumen to further his own agenda. "We needed a newspaper that represented the college, not a newspaper that represented him," Fletcher said. "There were concerns on the part of the administration that we were losing the Catholic identity." Fletcher noted that Viterbo President William Medland fired the previous faculty adviser, editor and staff in February 1992 after a humor column listed 10 alternative uses for condoms. The staff later was reinstated.