# Ha Ha Ha, Screw You "Truth" Truck for gay marriage **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 8, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644 "2004-09-08T12:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/21 "2004-09-09T03:37:25Z")
**Diogenes** : Did you see the abortion van? Picture of an aborted fetus, sign saying “JOHN KERRY IS PRO-ABORTION”… it was also driving around on Snelling during the fair. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/22 "2004-09-09T03:45:17Z")
> [@cheddarsnax](#): > > **Diogenes** : Did you see the abortion van? Picture of an aborted fetus, sign saying “JOHN KERRY IS PRO-ABORTION”… it was also driving around on Snelling during the fair. Oh, lovely. I used to attend the Job Corps center a block or so up from the gates to the Fairgrounds on Snelling, and I’m SO sorry I was there in such a lackluster year for political loonies with panel trucks. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/23 "2004-09-09T03:46:21Z")
> [@cheddarsnax](#): > > **Diogenes** : Did you see the abortion van? Picture of an aborted fetus, sign saying “JOHN KERRY IS PRO-ABORTION”… it was also driving around on Snelling during the fair. Yeah, I saw that one too. I remember being kind of pissed off about it because I had my daughter in the car and she got scared by it. How the fuck are you supposed to explain an aborted fetus to a five year old? I told her it was a doll covered with ketchup. She didn’t believe me and was still crying about that night. And these people pretend to care about children. :mad: It never crossed my mind to throw anything at the truck, though. (Incidentally, my daughter took no notice at all of the gay men kissing) ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/24 "2004-09-09T03:55:05Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > It never crossed my mind to throw anything at the truck, though. Try some ketchup. Fixes two problems. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/25 "2004-09-09T05:02:02Z")
I don’t understand what these people are trying to accomplish. Anyone, ANYONE for whom these are hot button topics is already going to be a Republican or a Democrat depending on if they are pro or con on the issue. I can’t see a truck such as this convincing anybody of your point of view. The only think I can see trucks like this doing is pushing people away. I mean, suppose DtC was a moderate (BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, sometimes I slay myself. 😛 ) who hadn’t really made up his mind. Wouldn’t having the abortion truck upset his little girl so much tend to anger him and push him _away_ from whichever position the truck was advertising? What are these morons trying to do? It’s truly baffling. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/26 "2004-09-09T05:07:36Z")
So trucks are new vehicle for protest in America? Here they just have great big ads, unless they are sheep carriers, then they just have sheep shit. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/27 "2004-09-09T05:31:31Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > So trucks are new vehicle for protest in America? Here they just have great big ads, unless they are sheep carriers, then they just have sheep shit. sheep shit vs political ads make you own joke ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/28 "2004-09-09T05:32:35Z")
I thought I did 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/29 "2004-09-09T08:55:56Z")
I, too, thought at first glance that the truck was _pro_ gay marriage. (Haven’t seen the truck in person, just saw the pic in today’s Star Tribune.) If I’d just walked by it or something I probably would have given the guy a thumbs-up and said, “Right on!” :smack: Of course, if I knew the truth and happened to encounter the truck, I’d grab the nearest male friend and make out with them for the viewing pleasure of the driver. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/30 "2004-09-09T09:10:20Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > Sorry, sometimes I slay myself. Stop being such a cheap tease. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/31 "2004-09-10T22:12:28Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > Who doesn’t love a general fracas? Such things tend to be major problems for private industry. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/32 "2004-09-13T02:13:21Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Presumably a bear-on-bear blowjob would have resulted in an arrest much earlier in the narrative. Not as stunning as some bear-on-bear rimming. Or some transvestites… We all know all homosexuals are always yearning to let out their inner drag queen. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/33 "2004-09-13T03:32:11Z")
> [@](#): > > …that’s an _anti_-gay-marriage truck? My thought exactly. It would have been right at home in the Toronto Pride parade, between the truck from the Liberal Party and the one from the Anglican Church… ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/34 "2004-09-13T03:43:29Z")
It does seem to show a radical difference in perception between certain groups. I thought the picture was rather nice and showed a gentle moment of genuine affection and joy. It wasn’t obscene or shocking. The guys were not wearing dresses or assless chaps. There was nothing disturbing or scary about it. Yet I guess the people who created this thing saw nothing but a pair of dirty queers and assumed that everyone else would be a sickened as they were. I was a little surprised they didn’t try to find a picture that was a little more over the top or cartoonish. The one they used could have been used in a portfolio for a wedding photographer. The fact that these “truth truck” idiots could not see anything beyond “Eww…dudes kissing” is very telling. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/35 "2004-09-13T03:49:27Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > Of course, if I knew the truth and happened to encounter the truck, I’d grab the nearest male friend and make out with them for the viewing pleasure of the driver. Notify me first. I wanna see! ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/36 "2004-09-13T19:48:00Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > It does seem to show a radical difference in perception between certain groups. I thought the picture was rather nice and showed a gentle moment of genuine affection and joy. It wasn’t obscene or shocking. The guys were not wearing dresses or assless chaps. There was nothing disturbing or scary about it. > > Yet I guess the people who created this thing saw nothing but a pair of dirty queers and assumed that everyone else would be a sickened as they were. I was a little surprised they didn’t try to find a picture that was a little more over the top or cartoonish. The one they used could have been used in a portfolio for a wedding photographer. The fact that these “truth truck” idiots could not see anything beyond “Eww…dudes kissing” is very telling. There was a gay rights-oriented family day in my town this last summer. Very tasteful, very mild. Just a day in the park with crafts and sports and fun for everyone. The local paper covered it, and ran two pictures. One was of a lesbian mother playing soccer with her daughter. The other was a shot of two men, one standing behind the other, giving him a peck on the neck. I was reading the article ion the break room at work, when a cow orker came up next to me and started making a huge fuss over the “pornography on the front page of the newspaper.” I felt sick. It’s hard for me to grasp just how deeply rooted homophobia is. This photograph is about as innocuous as could be. It’s remarkable how accurate the word “homophobia” is. Her reaction was that of visceral fear. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/37 "2004-09-13T20:38:38Z")
Does anyone else keep reading this thread’s title and wondering what the hell those anti-smoking commercials have to do with gay marriage? ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/38 "2004-09-13T20:45:35Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Does anyone else keep reading this thread’s title and wondering what the hell those anti-smoking commercials have to do with gay marriage? Welcome to Crazyworld. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/39 "2004-09-13T21:10:36Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > Such things tend to be major problems for private industry. I imagine there’s more than a kernel of truth to that, **Jeff Olsen**. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-ha-screw-you-truth-truck-for-gay-marriage/263644/40 "2004-09-14T04:55:55Z")
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