Posted on 09/23/2011 10:01:23 AM PDT by lbryce
Members of the conservative gay rights group GOProud are demanding an apology from Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum for what they call his disrespectful comments directed at a gay soldier in Thursday night's GOP presidential debate.
"Tonight, Rick Santorum disrespected our brave men and women in uniform, and he owes Stephen Hill, the gay soldier who asked him the question about Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal, an immediate apology," said GOProud's Christopher Barron and Jimmy LaSalvia in a Thursday night press release.
During the Fox News/Google-sponsored debate, which took place in Orlando, Florida, a gay soldier deployed in Iraq asked the candidates if they would take measures to "circumvent" the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," if elected president.
Some audience members audibly booed the soldier -- a moment the GOP candidates on stage chose to ignore.
GOProud also noted that Santorum, who answered the question, declined to thank the soldier for his service, and called the repeal of DADT "social experimentation" - and "tragic."
"I would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military," Santorum responded. "And the fact that they're making a point to include it as a provision within the military that we are going to recognize a group of people and give them a special privilege to -- and removing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' I think tries to inject social policy into the military. And the military's job is to do one thing, and that is to defend our country."
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Which is why "I support the continuation of DADT. It has worked well for two decades" would have been the best and most straightforward thing for Santorum (or any other candidate) to say.
I don’t know what your problem is but trisham does not support the homosexual agenda.
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Nor did I say he did support the homosexual agenda. So please... Don’t butt into an argument where you - admittedly - don’t know the issues.
Thanks.
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I hear you and I agree. When a society ignores the most basic realities, it's a sign of cultural insanity. I believe that this incident is one of the reasons many of us objected to Coulter's involvement with GOProud. It seemed to us that she was, whether intentionally or not, validating their organization and so its goals.
They may be “Gay Republicans”, but they’re not conservatives. And Santorum has nothing to apologize for.
Now there's an oxymoron for you.
"THANK YOU!
Finally, a voice of reason. (You know we will both be called liberals, now, don't you?)
“You keep saying you would not boo him.”
“We naturally take that to mean you support him.”
Simply because I do not Boo someone, somehow means I support that person?
Wow.
I demand that “gay republicans” come clean for the liberal moles they truly are and slink back into their democrat hidey-holes.
Santorum’s answer was courageous and respectful. I’m SICK TO DEATH of these queers and their society-ruining demands.
Bugger off, queers.
What issues? That you’re a rude know-nothing?
They booed an American soldier.
“Any person subject to this chapter [of the UCMJ] who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy,” Article 125 of the UCMJ states. “Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”
There is also the point of "good order and discipline". Anything that interferes with that is also subject to court martial.
Before the recent change in law, the government was not allowed to ask someone their sexual preference, and rightly so. It just isn't their damn business. But with the new law, they can ask.
Just as the communists have the goal of taking over all parts of our society - schools, churches, government, unions, art, media, military, etc,
so do the homos.
Except that I do know the issue. You questioned where trisham was coming from on the point they made. I happen to know. You obviously do not.
What I don't know is what the heck your problem is. Only YOU know.
“Like gays who deliberately lied about their sexual orientation.”
What evidence do you have that Hill lied about his sexual orientation?
He served the vast majority of his service under DADT.
If they did not ask and he did not tell, how could he lie?
Dammit. I’ve given you every opportunity to be negative of gays serving in the military - and you just won’t do it.
You did say you do not support the repeal of DADT, but that’s not enough to convince us that you are OK with gays serving.
Now do you see why we are convinced that you support a gay-friendly military?
I think that's the case.
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