The Republican Presidential hopefuls held their third televised debate in Orlando, FL last night hosted by Fox News, and things took an ugly turn when the audience booed a gay soldier as he asked the candidates about gays in the military.
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The question was posed to Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum when Stephen Hill, an openly gay soldier stationed in Iraq, asked on video about the recent repeal of the 1993 law, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Hill asked:
“Under one of your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that’s been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?”
Santorum said that the 1993 law should be reinstated, answering Hill:
“Any type of sexual activity has no place in the military, it’s playing a social experimentation with our country.”
Santorum said he wouldn’t throw openly gay soldiers out of the military but they should:
“Move forward in conformity with what was happening in the past, which is, that sex is not an issue. Leave it alone, keep it to yourself, whether you are a heterosexual or a homosexual,”
At that point, the Florida crowd erupted into applause. Take a look at how it all went down.
