The reality television star of ‘The Bachelor,” Juan Pablo Galavis, voiced his opinion of gays during an ABC-hosted media event on Jan. 17, reports the Los Angeles Times.

At the event, Sean Daly of The TVPage asked Juan Pablo, whose role on “The Bachelor” has him dating 24 girls in order to find the love his life, if he thought featuring gays on the show would be a good idea.

“I respect them, but honestly, I don’t think it is a good example for kids to watch that on TV,” Juan Pablo answered simply.

But he didn’t stop there.

“Now there is fathers having kids and all that,” he explained in his trademark broken English. “It is hard for me to understand that, too, in the sense of a household having peoples.… Two parents sleeping in the same bed and the kid going into bed…. It is confusing in a sense.”

Juan Pablo maintains that a gay “Bachelor” would be more difficult for viewers to tune in to because gay people are “more ‘pervert’ in a sense. And to me the show would be too strong … too hard to watch.”

Throughout the interview Juan Pablo mentions his “respect” for gay people and his gay friends, and their desire to have children, but still finds the idea of homosexual parents having children inappropriate.

Juan Pablo has a 4-year-old daughter, Camila, who often appears on the show.

The TVPage posted the full audio of the interview on SoundCloud, available here.

The Los Angeles Times reached out to ABC for comment as of Saturday morning, but received no response.

“The Bachelor” is two episodes into a January-month promotion. It remains to be seen how ABC handles his comments, and if the show will see a backlash and drop in ratings  similar to what “Duck Dynasty” experienced after the show’s patriarch, Phil Robertson, likened homosexuality to bestiality in an interview with GQ Magazine.