The Real Housewives Of NJ Cast Tackles Gay Issues, For Better Or For Worse

June 4 2012, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
WARNING: Story contains graphic content
Sunday's episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey took a few different looks at how the families on the show look at gay issues, as the Manzos, Giudices and Lauritas all hitched a trail to Chicago to see Caroline Manzo’s brother Jamie in a civil union ceremony with his partner Rich.
One cast member who stuck out for all the wrong reasons was Teresa Giudice's husband Joe, whose non-stop stream of homophobia seemed to put off everyone except his better half Teresa, who told viewers, "Despite what people think, Joe's not anti-gay -- we love the gays!"
In one crude instance, Joe told a story -- on a bus full of mixed company, including Jamie, who’s openly gay -- about the closest he ever came to a homosexual experience.
"When I was a kid, me and my friend were hanging out in my pool, and we're talking about whose got a bigger p*nis," Joe bragged. "We end up somehow taking our p*nis' out and seeing whose got a bigger p*nis