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I was driving down the road today, and passed a truck carrying a big sign: "Anyone man that lieth with mankind shall be put to death." That in itself was bad enough (and unusual), but several cars in front of me honked their horns and cheered and waved out their windows in support of the twit. I noticed the uproar before I figured out what they were cheering about. Sometimes I feel like giving up on America. I just hope I wasn't the only one to flip him off as he drove around town. I probably was.

Whereabouts in the US was this?

Killin' faggots is the most funerest thing next to breakin' mah sister's leg so she can't run away from a good rapin'!

Johonebesus wrote:I was driving down the road today, and passed a truck carrying a big sign: "Anyone man that lieth with mankind shall be put to death." That in itself was bad enough (and unusual), but several cars in front of me honked their horns and cheered and waved out their windows in support of the twit. I noticed the uproar before I figured out what they were cheering about. Sometimes I feel like giving up on America. I just hope I wasn't the only one to flip him off as he drove around town. I probably was.

Wow, a homophobic redneck driving a pickup truck. What a shock.

Gandalf wrote:Whereabouts in the US was this?

NW Georgia, and this type of display is really rather rare. This area isn't redneck enough or populous enough for these sorts of virulent things to be frequent. Of course, there are no gay pride demonstrations either.

It wasn't shocking so much as depressing (hence the thread title). Besides, as I said, such things are rather rare around here. Once in a while you might see some nut on the highway waving a placard about the evils of homosexuality, but much more typical are generic evangelical or apocalyptic warnings. I can't specifically recall the last time I saw a homophobic placard, especially something like this. And the really surprising thing was the other drivers' reactions.