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05.07.2009 9:06am EDT
(New York City) Samuel Wurzelbacher, the Ohio man hailed as “Joe the Plumber” by Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign last year, said he believes gays are “queer” and said he won’t allow them near his children.
Nevertheless, Wurzelbacher said the decision about whether to allow same-sex couples to marry should be left to states.“People don’t understand the dictionary – it’s called queer,” Wurzelbacher told Christianity Today in an interview published this week. “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.”
He added, “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.”
Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights organization based in Washington, dismissed Wurzelbacher’s comments.
“It would matter if Joe the Plumber mattered,” Solmonese said. “One thing among many things we learned in the 2008 campaign is that he doesn’t.”
Wurzelbacher, regarded as a folk hero to many conservatives after challenging then-Democratic nominee Barack Obama about his tax policies, said neither political party was sufficiently Christian.
“They use God as a punch line,” Wurzelbacher said of Republicans. “They use God to invoke sympathy or invoke righteousness, but they don’t stay the course.”
Wurzelbacher said he considered McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, one of the GOP’s emerging stars. But he said the party would have a difficult time recasting its image to appeal to younger voters.
“You got the RNC talking about repackaging principles and values to make them hip and cool to the younger generation,” Wurzelbacher said. “You can’t repackage them. They are what they are. You can’t make what they are.”
Since the election, Wurzelbacher has spoken at conservative rallies around the country and traveled to Israel as a rookie reporter to cover the Gaza conflict.
Wurzelbacher told the magazine he might consider running for office someday.
“Not right now,” Wurzelbacher said. “God hasn’t said, ‘Joe, I want you to run.’ I feel (it’s) more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great.”
Y’know, we’ve already had 8 years of a candidate who said God told him to run for office. I don’t think we need any more of that type of candidate.
Joe, it’s time for you to go back to your private life and keep those feelings you have for gays private, as well.
Zac, yes! Bares repeating (pun intended)….
“This guy actually had to look up the word “queer” in the dictionary? Joe c’mon buddy, you’re strange and unusual, does that make you queer?”
He looked it up in a dictionary?
Joe the Plumber can read?
This guy actually had to look up the word “queer” in the dictionary? Joe c’mon buddy, you’re strange and unusual, does that make you queer?
1 a: worthless, counterfeit b: questionable, suspicious2 a: differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal b (1): eccentric, unconventional (2): mildly insane : touched c: absorbed or interested to an extreme or unreasonable degree : obsessed d (1)often disparaging : homosexual (2)sometimes offensive : gay 4b3: not quite well
By these definitions, esp 1b, he’s pretty queer himself.
I don’t think I’d let him near my kids either.
-c
Just for the record, I wouldn’t let handymen posing as real plumbers near my children either……
What an offensive IDIOT! If this is how the right wing views the “average, everyday common man”, I think we can see the problem with the GOP. “Joe the plumber” is actually “Joe the IDIOT”….quit drinking the punch Joe!, we can’t get the “intervention team” up to you just yet and btw, How are those tax problems with the State of Ohio budy? According to records on file with the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, the state filed a tax lien against Samuel J. Wurzelbacher for $1,182.98 on Jan. 26, 2007, that is still active. You might want to get that handled first, Joe, before you start any other lies in public.
I’m not sure which one of the previous posts is the funniest! What’s sad though, is: this is all they have left? Joe the plumber? hahahaha
If “Joe the Plumber” is a real plumber, then why can’t he seem to be able to clear all of the crap out of his own head?
Boy, wouldn’t you feel lucky having a guy like this for your “friend?”
The fact is that STRAIGHT men are the most likely to sexually abuse children, so HE is the one that I would keep far away from my babies, not my gay best friend! I would trust a gay man with my children LONGGGGG before I would trust a straight man alone with them!
He just keeps proving what an idiot he is. Like the air-head Miss. CA, give ‘em both rope…they’ll disappear soon.
Ignorance at it’s best!
Yeah Joe and I wouldn’t let my kids around a right wing hypocrite nut like you either. Teaching hate from a book you don’t understand You are the typical idiot who calls the GOP the Grand old Party.. Grand my fanny…
Hey Joe-the-fraudulent-artisan;
You do realise that most child molesters (something like 90%) are heterosexual, don’t you?
Which kinda means it’s you straight folk that we need to keep them away from…
And, I might add, when God “tells you to run”, perhaps you should go for a psych evaluation first. After all, apart from you, He only seems to speak to schizophrenics…
Well, if we ever had any dooubts about this guy, they should be gone by now. What an idiot! The new face of the Republican Party, can you believe?
ha ha haaaaaa
Joe the Plumber, lmfao, sounds like an SNL skit. The guy is a complete moron and doing interviews on christian television?
Joe, its been 10 minutes, ur not worth 15, GET OUT.