Our FRiends want to clear up a little misunderstanding...

[brooklynite]

Apparently, last night, the GOP faithful weren't booing a Gay soldier...

No, they were booing a Gay acceptance policy.

Doesn't that make you feel better?

[The Straight Story]

1. They were booing people who want to serve their country, fellow American citizens

who are willing to die for them - whether it was the policy or the person - they can't spin that :)

[rurallib]

2. big difference

:shrug: :shrug:

[libodem]

3. What was that tired old saw about

All men being created EQUAL? Was that removed when the Patriot Act was forced down our throats?

[The Straight Story]

4. Oh, and hopefully those FRiends will read this:

Sgt. Maj. Barrett also tackled questions on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s ban on gays serving openly in uniform. The Department of Defense is preparing to implement repeal, and Sgt. Maj. Barrett addressed that issue directly.

“Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution is pretty simple,” he told a group of Marines at a base in South Korea. “It says, ‘Raise an army.’ It says absolutely nothing about race, color, creed, sexual orientation.

“You all joined for a reason: to serve,” he continued. “To protect our nation, right?”

“Yes, sergeant major,” Marines replied.

“How dare we, then, exclude a group of people who want to do the same thing you do right now, something that is honorable and noble?” Sgt. Maj. Barrett continued, raising his voice just a notch. “Right?”

Sgt. Maj. Barrett then described conversations with U.K. troops, who saw a similar ban lifted a decade ago, with little disruption. And to drive the point home, he produced a pocket copy of the Constitution.

“Get over it,” he said. “We’re magnificent, we’re going to continue to be. … Let’s just move on, treat everybody with firmness, fairness, dignity, compassion and respect. Let’s be Marines.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/06/21/straight-talk-from-top-enlisted-marine-on-dont-ask-repeal/

[roguevalley]

15. Sgt. Major Barrett is the awesomeness.

[LLStarks]

5. Santorum made no effort to thank the soldier. nt

[pacalo]

13. He shamelessly focused on "sex", like that's the point of eliminating DADT.

To advertise for sex. Pathetic. It was easier for Sanitarium to frame it untruthfully than to admit he was against civil rights for all.

Everyone should have the peace of mind to be themselves without fear of losing their jobs or being abused.

[mzteris]

19. Santorum made the most excellent argument FOR

getting rid of DADT, IMHO... I thought it quite ironic. And of course not a one of them got it.

[Botany]

6. all the spin in the world can not hide the ugly truth

"I don’t think he got booed at all, it was the policy that was being booed." Free Republic

Santorum had not even to begun to discuss the policy. People were booing because he was gay
end of story.

[HappyMe]

7. Oh, that makes all the difference in the world.

Their hatred and prejudice is breathtaking. Technology advances, but a decent segment of the population is backsliding at an alarming rate.

[tblue37]

14. So you are saying a "decent segment of the population" is not decent at all. nt

[tblue]

8. Nope. No way to clean that up.

Liars.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. They don't want to boo Gay people.. they want to put them to death under "Biblical Law"

don't you feel better?

[JoeyT]

16. No one is to boo anyone until I blow this whistle!

Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, if they're a gay soldier!

[Warren DeMontague]

18. God, I love that movie.

Classic.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. I'd like to mummify them in all of their "Support Our Troops" bumper stickers.

[abelenkpe]

11. They think that makes the booing more acceptable? nt

[pacalo]

12. Yeah, they just think he doesn't deserve as many civil rights as they have...

while he's on the front lines fighting for their rights.

Support the troops, & God bless them! Mhmm.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

17. What's the difference?

It still means exclusion :shrug:

[EFerrari]

20. That site is our best evidence that the left and right do not mirror each other.

It is a hate site, much more interested in hatred than in politics or even their own party.,