Yep, here's your everyman folks! Lord knows if you let them "Queers" near your children they might catch "the gay" or something. Joe the Plumber is a walking, talking troll. That's it. Fuck this guy. Jesus could hang with the prostitutes but this plumber can't let his kids anywhere near those "Queers."

These people haven't lost enough (politically) yet. I really, truly, deeply want to be above vindictive and petty politicking but shit like this just drives me up the goddamned wall. Joe the Plumber was held up as some kind of exemplar of what we all are, or could be. I've got absolutely NOTHING against plumbers, but I've got a laundry list of problems with Joe Wurzelbacher.

These people don't just want to ban gay marriage. They want to keep gays out of polite society. They want the right to be bigoted, which they have, but they also demand that nobody call them on it.

Fuck that.

If one's faith compels one to disassociate completely from one slice of God's creation, well, that faith is simply fucked. Your children, Joe, are going to meet the "Queers" more and more in life. And the best part is that one day they'll probably see them as just regular folks. And you'll have failed, because what you wanted for them was another generation of bigotry.