Posted on 11/26/2021 12:02:58 PM PST by DFG
DENVER, CO—Local Christian plumber Peter Howe has come under fire for refusing to join same-sex fittings. Howe is being labeled a "backward, hateful bigot" for his refusal to connect two male pipe threads or two female pipe threads, insisting on only the traditional, conservative practice of male-to-female connections.
"Fittings are between a male pipe thread and a female pipe thread only," said Howe in a statement. "That's the way God designed plumbing, and it's my religious right to refuse anyone with a different plumbing lifestyle. I'm not saying they don't have the freedom to do what they want. I'm just saying I don't want to participate in it."
Howe's most recent legal trouble came when a forward-thinking couple in Denver called him for an emergency plumbing job but asked him to violate his conscience by performing a same-sex fitting connection. Howe said he politely declined and referred the couple to a dozen other plumbers in the area who are same-sex-fitting-affirming (SSFA). The couple thanked him for his time but then slapped him with a lawsuit.
"Look, if you want to try to connect two male pipe nipples, be my guest," he said. "But plumbing is my personal expression of art, and I won't participate in ceremonies that cause me to violate my morals."
The couple did, in the end, find someone to perform their same-sex union. Their house is now flooded.
Brilliant!
How bout an electrician who can’t use a pair of dykes?
All of the plumbers in this world will get a belly laugh from this story.
Share this story the next time you hire a plumber and he will cut his price.
and the hits keep on coming !!!
ROFL!!!
ping
Not to mention that story of the Dutch boy putting his finger in the DYKE now sounds kinda weird 🤔
That guy is going to get DOXXED big time.
I heard the “woke” folks are trying to rename male and female electrical connectors. Maybe goesinta and goesouta connectors will work.
someone is trying too hard...
Waiting to hear from the Pipefitters Equity Treatment Advocacy (PETA) on this one. Very likely he will be brought up on Diversity Violations by the ACLU (Association of Cantankerous Lying Unitards)!
Transgender Freedom for Pipes!
Just don’t talk about “Master” and “Slave” cylinders. You’ll get a whole nother group after you.
-—been using those for years. But maybe plumber Pete should keep a box of sex bolts or even cutler rivets for the occasional snowflake who can’t tell his goesintas apart? I actually make that stuff and would be happy to take the flake into the machine room, gage his threads, tap drill his deficiency, and torque on an appropriate appliance? When he leaves here he won’t be leaking and his Momma will be happy that he won’t have to share diapers with the white house?
Or ide hard drives.
I had an black friend give me lotsa grief about that.
Trying to repair my faucet connections. A part was obviously female but labeled male. I was confused and never finished the job.
And yes, it took a few seconds to notice the source.
Great fun.
Please explain the origin of the terms “male” and “female” in reference to plumbing and electrical fittings, for the slower plumbers in the room.
Okay I will try. Male fittings typically have external threads and female fittings typically have internal threads.
https://www.ondemandsupplies.co.uk/plumbing-blog-on-demand-supplies/what-are-the-differences-between-male-and-female-pipe-fittings/
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