Following on Joe the Plumber’s interview with Christianity Today, I expected some version of the following:
(Dan Riehl)

Funny how they can make a popular television show called Queer eye for the straight guy. But you aren’t supposed to use the word.

Yes, some homosexual have appropriated the word “queer” and have used it to describe themselves, and it has also been used in an attempt to be hip and/or ironic, as with the TV show he cites. However, in neither of those cases is the word deployed in the way that JTP did, which was to directly state that homosexuals are “strange and unusual” people who should be kept away from children.

Riehl’s “point” is just as asinine as people who say that because some blacks use the n-word in rap songs and the like that it therefore means that anyone can use it as they please. That is an absurd position and we all know it.

And we also get Donald Douglas making the disingenuous claim that

Nowadays, as we have seen with the recent controversy over Carrie Prejean, but also today with Samuel Wurzelbacher’s statements, traditional Americans have been rebranded as “bigots.”

Nothing could be further from the truth.

What Douglas is asserting here, and in an utterly dishonest fashion, is that Andrew Sullivan accused Wurzelbacher of bigotry because of his views on gay marriage. No, he accused Wurzelbacher of bigotry because of his statement concerning keeping his children away from homosexuals.

There is no other word for that than bigotry. One keeps the dangerous away from children and to directly associate danger with a group of persons simply because of their sexual orientation is bigotry. At worse it raises canards such as the idea that homosexuals are automatically pedophiles or that they are likely seriously ill. At best it suggests that homosexuality itself is contagious, so for goodness’s sake, keep them away from the children!

To suggest that JTP was only talking about gay marriage is to deliberately be misrepresenting what he said.

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3 Responses to “More on JTP’s Comments”

1. thescoop Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 11:08 am

   BLACK AMERICA AND THE N-WORD:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP2U0jmZjec

2. repsac3 Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 11:58 am

   Started from Douglas’ blog. When I hit the link and read what “Sam, who ain’t no plumber” said, I found it hard to believe anyone could so willfully misunderstand the difference between not approving of homosexuality, and “keeping the queers (even his queer friends) away from the kids.” But then I remembered who was doing the misunderstanding, and how often that kinda willful misunderstanding of words and events happen ’round his parts.

   There is no other word for that than bigotry.

   Great post.

3. Steven L. Taylor Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

   Gracias.