It was about one week ago when we read with jaws agape as Eugene Delgaudio — Loudoun County Board of Supervisors representative and proponent of the idea that TSA pat downs are part of a radical “homosexual agenda” involving many a “practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission” — wrote but the latest chapter in a long personal history of verbal attacks on homosexuals and homosexuality. But according to Delgaudio, it’s the rest of us who have the problem, not him.

Delgaudio, who is also the executive director of the conservative non-profit Public Advocate of the U.S., spoke with the Washington Post yesterday, claiming that the anger over his comments has nothing to do with the fact that the guy obviously has an issue with gay people — instead, it’s simply the public’s inability to deal with his role as a “conservative’s conservative”:

But as for the criticism surrounding his comments, he said, “It’s all angst over a conservative having two jobs. A conservative should not be in public office, that’s the attitude that I see here. . . . In my opinion, that’s the motivation behind it.”

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“They’ve heard it before,” he said. “I think my constituents know that I have a novel way of looking at liberal orthodoxy.”

Yes, an incredibly novel way — spawned from an epic origin story involving secretive printing plants which produce millions upon millions of “pro-homosexual” petitions (which, it should be noted, are “bulging” from boxes) that will, without action, flood Congress and destroy the institution of traditional marriage.

It’s true, we might not understand Eugene Delgaudio — but it’s not like he’s making it very easy to do so.