Robert Oscar Lopez

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Robert Oscar Lopez
Born 1971
Alma mater Yale University
University of Buffalo
Occupation Academic
Employer Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Robert Oscar Lopez (born 1971) is an American academic. He is Professor of Humanities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas.

Early life

Robert Oscar Lopez was raised by a lesbian couple.[1] He is of Puerto Rican descent.[2] Additionally, he is "the descendant of African slaves."[2]

Lopez graduated from Yale University in 1993, where he received a bachelor of arts degree.[3] He received a master's degree in classics from the University of Buffalo in 2007.[3] He holds a PhD from New York State University, Buffalo. [3][4]

Career

Lopez joined the faculty at California State University, Northridge in 2008.[3] He became a tenured Associate Professor of English and Classics in 2013.[3] In July 2013, it was announced he would self-publish "Mean Gays" fiction books.[5]

In 2012 he published the essay "Growing up with two Moms", detailing his experiences growing up as son of a lesbian couple.[6] He made it clear that he considered same-sex parenting to be a disadvantage to the child for many reasons. This resulted in an immediate backlash in blogs, with some calling it hate speech.[6]

In 2015 in collaboration with Rivka Edelman he edited the book Jephthah's Daughters, the first collection of personal testimonies by children of homosexuals who took a negative view of same-sex parenting and regard it as a form of unjust deprivation. The book provoked so much fury on both sides of the Atlantic that it was simply blacked out from reviews in the mainstream media and is permanently marked "not available" on the Amazon website.

As the storm about Jephthah's Daughters intensified, Lopez was accused by two former students of creating a discriminatory environment. One accused him of not recommending her for an award although there was in fact no academic award for which she was eligible. [6] In October 2015, the CSUN provost wrote a letter informing Lopez that he was accused of intimidating students.[1] Meanwhile, Lopez accused another administrator of comparing an event he had organized at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to a "KKK camp."[7] Even leftwing and LGBT supporting commentators called this a "witch-hunt". [8]

No charges against Lopez were ever proved, but in 2016 he resigned from his post at CSUN and became Professor of Humanities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas. In his next book Whackos, Thugs and Perverts: Clintonian Decadence in Academia, he tracks the loss of intellectual freedom in U.S. academia under the control of a narrow atheist, leftwing, lowbrow monoculture dedicated to supposedly progressive and supposedly egalitarian ideologies.[9]

Lopez has served as the President of the International Children's Rights Institute since 2014.[3] He has authored articles about his opposition to same-sex parenting.[1] He testified against same-sex marriage in Minnesota.[5] He wrote an amicus curiae brief for the Supreme Court in the Obergefell vs. Hodges case opposing same-sex marriage on the grounds that same-sex parenting is not in the childn's best interest, deliberately deprives a child of one biological parent, and prioritizes adult homosexual tastes over the rights and needs of the child.[10][11]

Personal life

According to The Daily Caller, "He is — or was — bisexual. He is now married to a woman. "[1] According to Inside Higher Ed, he "identifies as bisexual."[6] He has one child by his wife. He is member of the Southern Baptist Convention.[3]

Works

Books

  • Jephthah's Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War of Family 'Equality', published 2015 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
  • The Colorful Conservative: American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2011.[3]
  • Wackos Thugs & Perverts: Clintonian Decadence in Academia, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2017

Articles

References

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  9. Whackos Thugs and Perverts: Clintonian Decadence in Academia, pub. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
  10. Amicus Brief Robert Oscar Lopez and B.N. Klein
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