Christianity Today recently caught up with Samuel Wurzelbacher, known to one and all as “Joe the Plumber,” even though that’s not his name and he’s not a plumber.
Anyway, Joe gets to talking about gay marriage and sez this: “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.”
If Joe were to turn Webster’s dictionary, page 1176, he would find this under the definition of “queer”: “(slang) homosexual: in general usage, still chiefly a slang term of contempt or derision.”
But why read when you can just say stuff?
