Anti-gay marriage activist Robert Oscar
Lopez on Tuesday claimed that allowing gay and lesbian couples to
marry leads to human trafficking.
Lopez, who is celebrated among social
conservatives due to the fact that he was raised briefly in a
same-sex household and claims he was damaged by the experience,
appeared on Sandy Rios in The Morning to criticize passage of
a marriage law in Hawaii.
“Look [at] what they did in Hawaii,
that's a state where over sixty percent of the population is
Asian-American; they're the people who came from South Korea, from
Japan, from the Philippines, countries that have a very, very
controversial history with adoption,” Lopez said, according to an
account from Right
Wing Watch. “And the predominantly white Human Rights Campaign
went to Hawaii and ripped apart that state, you heard the testimony,
they took a state and they just ripped at their heart.”
Lopez explained that married gay
couples “end up buying children overseas,” which “echoes what
happened in the past with the world wars in Korea and Vietnam where
children were bought and sold because of couples that maybe thought
they were doing the right thing but sometimes were also collaborating
with human trafficking.”