Joe the Plumber: I won’t let ‘queers’ near my children, ‘and they know it’
Published: May 5, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
In a recent interview with Christianity Today, the man who came to be known in the November presidential election as “Joe the Plumber” made eyebrow-raising remarks about gays.
Known legally as Samuel Wurzelbacher, “Joe” spoke of queers and remarked that he “wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children
Christianity Today: In the last month, same-sex marriage has become legal in Iowa and Vermont. What do you think about same-sex marriage at a state level?
Wurzelbacher: At a state level, it’s up to them. I don’t want it to be a federal thing. I personally still think it’s wrong. People don’t understand the dictionary–it’s called queer. Queer means strange and unusual. It’s not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. You know, God is pretty explicit in what we’re supposed to do–what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we’re supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins. I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they’re people, and they’re going to do their thing.
More excerpts from the interview were published at the Colorado Independent.
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I’m wondering how Good Ol Joe detects teh gays. Does he have a proximity alarm system set up peripherally around his children that’s set to “pink alert”? Does it register false positives when Project Runway is on the TV?
Just sayin’….
what an amazingly ignorant piece of work that guy is. Well, the entire right-wing, actually.
“Friends” that can’t go near his kids? Is he afraid it’s contagious? or does he believe the fear/hate mongers and think they are child molesters? He calls them “friends” to try and diminish the harsh edge of his bigotry, but they are clearly not “friends”. Just another word’s meaning he seems to have no clue about.
There is no room for fact or tolerance in the right-wing. Every time one of their poster children opens their mouths and lets their rotted brains ooze out, they reinforce just how sub-human that group really is.
Well eureka, we have sage advice once again dispensed from the mouth of an ignorant, tax-evading, redneck dumbass layabout. Well wup-te-do, jerkwad.
Now go the fuck away.
Hmm…. Joe the Plumber has friends that are gay.
I think the take-home message here is:
“Joe the Plumber… Pall’n around with Queers! And now he want to be near YOUR children? I don’t think so!”
He sounds like a 1st Testament kinda guy. Some were throwing around mossad agent during the election ? (can’t imagine mossad using someone so dumb though…)
In either case the Christians should run away from this intolerant doof before he brings them down with them.
I went to church as a kid and I dont remember anyone as dumb as these people being paraded on TV. Seriously, there was like the normal adult minister on Sundays and then the cartoons like Jimmy Swaggert, Pat Robertson, etc. Is it someones agenda to destroy Christianity on these shores??
Given the crowd he’s hanging out with now, I think Wurzelbacher would be surprised to find out just how many of his friends are (at least what we on the Left define as) gay.
In my experience, there is an interestingly stark difference between Left-wing and Right-wings definitions of homosexuality. On the left, our definition of “gay” is simply someone attracted to the same sex. On the right someone is “gay” only if they actually act on it. In Republican world nobody is born gay because (in a hushed voice) everyone is born gay, they just “choose” whether or not to act upon it. This would explain the “pray the gay away” and other “gay” then “not gay” concepts that we on the left find so ridiculous. It also explains such strong antigay fervor -while seemingly in the act of beating up the local queer, they are in reality in a struggle with their own gayness. This is why they are so threatened by gay marriage and homosexuality being socially acceptable -if its legal AND exceptable, EVERYBODY’S gonna be doing it! Carry this line of logic just a little further and you will come to the possibility that maybe there really are MANY gays on the Right -maybe even LOTS AND LOTS of what we would term “gays” on the Right, like maybe even MOST of them. Just closeted. Which is OK. But creepy.
“and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children.”
Seems fair enough.
I certainly wouldn’t want Mr. Wurzelbacher anywhere near mine.
Ah, but you don’t want him around your kids based on sound logic and reasoning. He’s using no such methods
Children? I wouldn’t let this nincompoop near my pet fish.
Ewww! He’s got KIDS??!! Someone actually had SEX with this dumbass??!! I don’t know which is more disturbing!!
Well, guess Joe the Tax Cheating Fake Plumber best move out of his house … he doesn’t want ‘queers’ near his kids, and all. Hopefully, when they get old enough to realize what a tool their daddy is, they’ll kindly tell him to go fuck himself.
Well Joe the Tax Cheating Fake Plumber, I wouldn’t want you around my kid, either. She doesn’t take kindly to ignorant fuckheads who wouldn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground!
Why is RAW giving this asshole any press?
Oh, and I still love the way the comments login works. Really stupid!
For the person who thought it up, how about a big slap upside the head, then fire that asshole!
You are correct Marinessuck, I don’t like the login I would rather have it like the old way of commenting. Also spot on savantster spot on I haven’t seen you since they cut off the old way of commenting. At best Joe the Plumber is a borderline racists and bigot at best. He’s ignorant to boot because he can’t see that the right wing is using him as there “House N****r” to go out and perform for there interest. When in all actuality they could care less about this guy. They like this monkey going out from time to time in his work shirt and shoes to be there poster boy for the “working american”. If the republicans want a chance any chance to wine some gains in the next election, they have to change there world view and the party as a whole. The zealots have control and they are putting up people that belong to another decade.
I saw a move sunday night called No Country for Old Men (very good worth the watch) and toward the end the sheriff played by Tommy Lee Jones visit his paralyzed Uncle in a trailer. They talk about the good old days and his retiring and his uncle says the world is changing for elders who couldn’t keep up with the changing times, and for them to wait for change to come to them is pure Vanity (which is a sin). This is what the Republican and some of the Democratic individuals in the party are messed up about. They are telling there followers (who are younger) old ways and ideology that doesn’t fit anymore. I believe that if those teachers weren’t around, the Republicans would morph into the Democrats to form a more middle of the ground political party.
Obviously, this piece of trash has some sexual issues going on. He needs to see a good, credible therapist quickly before he spews off some more willful-ignorance.
If he were comfortable and secure with his own sexuality, he wouldn’t be saying this shit.
Why doesn’t he come out of the closet and be done with it? Be honest with himself and his own sexuality. He’s gay or bisexual. From my experience, “people” like this him are trying to hide their own gay feelings.
By his own definition (”strange and unusual”), Joe the plumber is queer.
Dear media,
Please stop talking about this fool, you are all better that that!
thank you - R
imsam?
Could we please get off the idea that everyone who has a problem with gay people is fighting some inner sexual conflict? Some of them are, and some of them are just stupid. in Fake Joe the fake plumber’s case, who even cares? Queer or straight, he’s dumb as a doorknob, and anyone who hasn’t figured that out yet is dumber than he is.
As a practicing “queer” myself, I’m getting really sick of some of these spot-diagnoses of homophobia caused by repressed homosexual tendencies. If you think about it, it’s the same thing as claiming these idiots. He’s not one of my peeps and I don’t care if he starts having sex with men tomorrow, he never will be.
Unfortunate and unacceptable, for sure. If republicans have any clue as to what’s going on, they need to strongly come out against this type of hate-speech and disassociate themselves from Joe.
And that won’t happen.
uhmmmm….I dont let unlicensed tradesmen near my biggest investment…espcially ones who are tax cheats?
But hey I am democrat?
The GOP doesnt seem to have such ethics?