Robert Oscar Lopez

Robert Oscar Lopez (born 1971) is an American academic. He was a Professor of Humanities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.[1]

Robert Oscar Lopez
Born1971
Alma materYale University
University of Buffalo
OccupationAcademic
EmployerCalifornia State University, Northridge

Early life

Robert Oscar Lopez 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] and 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] This resulted in an immediate backlash in blogs, with some calling it hate speech.[6] He also ran a blog where he was accused of homophobia for comparing gay parents to slave owners and same sex adoption to "the cultural genocide practices once used against blacks and Indians." [7]

Lopez was accused by two former students for creating a discriminatory environment.[6] In October 2015, the CSUN provost wrote a letter informing Lopez that he was accused of intimidating students. Meanwhile, Lopez accused another administrator of comparing an event he had organized at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to a "KKK camp."[8]

Lopez has served as the President of the International Children's Rights Institute since 2014.[3] 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 about same-sex marriage.[9][10]

In 2016, Lopez resigned his position at CSUN and later became Professor of Humanities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.[11] In November 2019, according to Southwestern, Lopez’s position was eliminated due to changing program needs of Scarborough College. However, Southwestern's decision was undergirded by Lopez's actions, which included failure to comply with basic administrative policies, being the subject of regular complaints from students and faculty colleagues, and, in the end, refusal to attend meetings with his supervisors.[12] In contrast, Lopez claimed that Southwestern administrators fired him for his refusal to cut back on his rhetoric after having reprimanded him earlier for talking almost incessantly about homosexuality.[13]

Personal life

According to Inside Higher Ed, he "identifies as bisexual."[6] His biography at CSUN says he has been married to his wife since 2001 and they have two children.[3] He is member of the Southern Baptist Convention.[3]

Works

Books
  • Jephthah's Daughters. The Innocent Casualties of Same-Sex Parenting, published 2016 by Wilberforce Publications.[14][15]
  • The Colorful Conservative: American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2011.[3]

Articles

References
  1. "Robert López, Professor of Humanities". Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Archived from the original on August 23, 2019.
  2. "Robert Oscar López (aka Bobby Lopez)". GLAAD. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  3. "Robert Oscar Lopez". CSUN College of Humanities. California State University, Northridge. Archived from the original on May 1, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  4. "Robert Oscar Lopez, PhD". International Children's Rights Institute. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  5. Maza, Carlos (July 24, 2013). "Robert Oscar Lopez Is Self-Publishing A Bizarre Series Of Gay Fiction Books". Equality Matters. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  6. Flaherty, Colleen (November 24, 2015). "Whose Bias?". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  7. https://www.glaad.org/cap/robert-oscar-lópez-aka-bobby-lopez
  8. French, David (November 11, 2015). "Campus Kangaroo Court Convicts Conservative Professor". The National Review. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  9. "Amicus Brief Robert Oscar Lopez and B.N. Klein" (PDF).
  10. Naab, Kathleen (April 28, 2015). "Those Raised by Same-Sex Couples Try to Show Another Side to Marriage Debate". National Catholic Register. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  11. "Robert López". Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  12. Queerty https://swbts.edu/news/releases/statement-southwestern-seminary-s-commitment-biblical-sexuality/. Retrieved 2019-12-04. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. Gremore, Graham (2019-12-04). ""Ex-gay bisexual" professor fired from Christian university for talking about too much gay stuff". Queerty. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  14. "Jephthah's Children". Wilberforce Publications. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  15. "Book review: Jephthah's Children". Christian Concern. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
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