Joe the Plumber, bigot

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Let's just call it like it is.

In an interview with Christianity Today, Samuel Wurzelbacher had this to say in response to a question about same-sex marriage:

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.

Right, because the worst slur he can think of is what you might call white people. He's the victim, isn't that his story? Isn't that how the right views itself? Isn't such perceived victimhood at the core of right-wing identity?

Right, because "God" is "pretty explicit" about everything. Just read the good Ol' Testament for some good ol' bloodthirsty bigotry. Is that what Joe would like, that sort of Biblical tyranny? And what are men and women for? To make babies? Is that the full extent of our humanity? Huh.

Oh, but we're supposed to love everyone. Well, not Joe. He has "some friends," but presumably he condemns them to hell, but not before not letting his children nowhere near them. How are they friends? Do they consider him a friend? If so, what sort of friendship is that?

But why bother trying to make sense of this. Joe is nothing if not an idiot who trips himself up in his own idiocy. That, and a shameless bigot. No wonder he continues to play so well among Limbaugh-Coulter conservatives.