Joe the Plumber calls gays 'queer'

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Joe the Plumber calls gays 'queer'
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Thu, 05-07-2009 - 12:54pm
Joe the Plumber calls gays 'queer'
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_joe_the_plumber.html

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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2008 file photo, Samuel "Joe The Plumber" Wurzelbacher speaks at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. at a Town Square Stop in Washington Park in Sandusky, Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

NEW YORK -- 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." (me:  AMEN!  Why is anyone even listening to him anymore?)


  Remainder of story at link above.

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Registered: 01-22-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 8:14pm

~Is it kind of like the "N" word for black people.~


Yeah, I guess, in the sense that it's the intent that counts.

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Registered: 01-22-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 8:18pm

YVW (it was a good question :)

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Registered: 04-11-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 8:20pm
That makes sense.

 

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Registered: 01-22-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 8:32pm

~I don't know, but I think his idea that his kids will never be around Gays is the problem. Not the Q word.~


For me, yes.

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Registered: 03-30-2007
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 8:59pm
I think it's sad that there is so much hate in the World.
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Registered: 04-05-2002
Fri, 05-08-2009 - 6:43am
"I think it's sad that there is so much hate in the World. "






iVillage Member
Registered: 04-20-2009
Fri, 05-08-2009 - 10:54am

What about the slogan marched in Parades...."We are queer and we are here" and the T.V. show "Queer eye for the Straight Guy".???

It would seem to me that if anybody EXCEPT Joe the plumber says the word "queer" all is good....but because he appears to be a homophobe and used the word then the word is hateful and insulting.

Again, it seems that the "victims" are being a bit over-sensitive on this. Just a bit two-sided to me.

Community Leader
Registered: 04-05-2002
Fri, 05-08-2009 - 12:09pm
It's not whether Joe the Plumber said the word "queer" or not, it's that he said homosexuals are immoral and he'd keep his children away from them.





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Registered: 03-23-2003
Fri, 05-08-2009 - 1:09pm

Exactly!