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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.”
The bible also says that men can have more than one wife and keep slaves. Women should be obedient to their husbands. So which”laws” of the bible are you going to follow.
I think the definitive word the the plummer’s quote is “had”: “I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual.” I’m sure he is talking about the one gay guy in high school that he didn’t get around to beating up. He wouldn’t let me anywhere near his kids? Hell, I wouldn’t let him anywhere near my house plants…
Just another republican mental pervert
joe the plumer thats ok i would not have you around my kids eathier they way you disrespcet people i dont care if they are gay or not its just you i dislike people who treates people like shit
me thinks he does protest too much, he’s a closet case if ever i saw 1
He says he would never let his kids near homosexuals? hahahahahahaha, he might as well take his kids out of class, because most likely there will be homosexuals in their schools.
Hal & Rob
We think he needs the front end of a plunger over his mouth and the back end rammed you know where.
I am an emergency room doctor near where you live, “joe”. And, I’m queer. So, when you have to bring your son in for a life-threatening emergency, I’ll be sure to stay away from him, and you can treat him yourself.
Okay, of course I wouldn’t withhold treatment from anyone, not even Joe himself. But his idiotic statement which makes the assumption that all gay men are pedophiles is even more absurd than my statement of non-treatment.
I’ve seen plenty of child-abuse cases, and EVERY ONE OF THEM was perpetrated by a HETEROSEXUAL Adult Male, and in most cases, it was the child’s HETEROSEXUAL Father or, HETEROSEXUAL Legal Guardian, or the HETEROSEXUAL boyfriend of the unwed mother, who views the child as a liability. My world (the ER) would be far better off if there were less “Joe-The-Plumbers” and a lot more caring, giving gay men and women who adopt children because they LOVE them, not view them as a punching bag or liability.
Oh well, I don’t really want to be around “Joe the Plumber” who is a farse, and his family, simply put, why would we want to be with people who “hate” —
Wow, first Rush, then Cheney, now Joe the plumber. How many more pre-christmas presents is the republican party going to give me/ us? I 100% support “Joe the Plumber,” I just would never let him near my sink or toilet!
Samuel who? The guy that McCain fellow carted around with him on some bus as some hyper-glorified “Joe the common man, Joe the Plumber”?
Makes me even gladder that McCain is not our Pres even though Obama has been to known to keep some pretty troubling and homophobic company in the past.
How can any self-respecting gay person ever be “friends” with someone who doesn’t even want him or her to around him and his children???
I don’t get it. That guy doesn’t add anything of any value to the life of any gay man or gay woman except to treat gay people as something “weird” or “strange.”
If I met someone like Samuel, and I found that out, my response would be a brisk “Get away from me, dude. If I am not good enough for you and your family, then I don’t want you around me either.”
Life is too short for that kind of unfriendliness. I don’t have time for that kind of nonsense.
A real friend accepts you totally and unconditionally and does not fear you or else he or she is not an actual friend and best forgotten.
And anyone going around saying they talk to God has a screw loose rattling around in their skulls. God is a very personal and a very private thing and should stay that way.
After Sarah Palin tried to run and made the GOP look even goofier than ever, this guy would be a “total millstone around the neck” and a source of unending jokes and ridicule for any party foolish enough to nominate him for any public office.
What a hilarious article! Look at the Republican Party now. It now carries the face of the likes of Miss California and Joe the Plumber. We’ve become a nation of academics and simpletons.
Praise to the reporter and good choice of quotes. This inspires me to make a new TV show.
My partner and I have a-lot of neighbors like Joe. They are all ignorant white trash that we would never socialize with anyway. We don’t even look at them or their damn kids but 80% of our taxes go
towards their brats’ schools and we get nothing in return. I can’t wait quickly enough for the housing market to improve so we get the hell out of here.
Joe who???
I find him strange, disturbing, an unusual. I guess that makes him queer. What’s the difference between Joe the Plumber and a gay guy? A six pack of beer! I love watching these idiots hang themselves.