Mt Romney On Boog Of Gay Soldier: ‘I Have Not Ma It My Practice To Sld The Audience’ - ABC News

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On Friday afternoon's edn of Ameri Live, host Megyn Kelly, who acted as a -morator last night's Fox News/Google Republin Printial Debate, asked one of those participatg ndidat -- Rick Santom -- about a ntroversial qutn that me up durg the bate. And wasn't about Santom's particular answer to a qutn he had received om a gay soldier named Stephen Hill via YouTube, but, rather, about the dience's reactn to the soldier's qutn.

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4 YEARS AFTER BOOG A GAY SOLDIER, A REPUBLIN DEBATE CROWD CHEERS LGBT ACCEPTANCE

GOP Debate Audience's Shockg Reactn To Gay Soldier * booing gay soldier *

Stephen Hill, a gay U.

OPN LISTENERS DIDN’T JT BOO A `GAY’ SOLDIER. THEY BOOED A SOLDIER.

Soldier, was jeered by the dience after he asked about ndidat' views on repealg the ary's ban on gay soldiers known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Multiple news stori today are claimg that the GOP ndidat didn’t object to the boog of a “gay soldier.

An even more accurate scriptn of what happened is to say that the GOP ndidat didn’t object to the boog of a nservative wrer Jim Geraghty pots out, the failure to object to the boog, let alone to thank him for his service, "entirely fed Hill as a gay man first and as a soldier send, if at all. What that means is that openly gay and lbian servicemembers are now permted to serve the armed forc on equal footg wh straight servicemembers. Army's announcement repealg the policy: "From this day forward, gay and lbian Soldiers may serve our Army wh the digny and rpect they serve.

Boos Heard At GOP Debate After Gay Soldier Asks About 'Don't Ask': The Two-Way His qutn was directed to former Pennsylvania Sen.

BOOS HEARD AT GOP DEBATE AFTER GAY SOLDIER ASKS ABOUT 'DON'T ASK'

Read and listen to the reactn om some the dience at last night's Republin printial bate after a vio qutn om Stephen Hill, a gay soldier who Fox News said is servg Iraq.

Rick Santom, and here is Fox News' transcript: Hill: "In 2010, when I was ployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was, bee I'm a gay soldier, and I didn't want to lose my job. "My qutn is, unr one of your princi, do you tend to circumvent the progrs that's been ma for gay and lbian soldiers the ary? Leave alone, keep — keep to yourself, whether you're a heterosexual or a homosexual.

", which "reprents gay nservativ and their alli, " says Santom ow the soldier an apology. Keep to yourself whether you are heterosexual or homosexual. Asked aga about the boog after a qutn was posed to him by a gay soldier at the Fox News-Google Debate Orlando, Fla., Santom sisted that he “didn’t hear” the chants and isn’t even sure what dience members would be boog about.

REPUBLIN DEBATE AUDIENCE BOOS GAY SOLDIER STEPHEN HILL AFTER DADT REPEAL QUTN (VIDEO)

“If you n go out and fd the people who were boog and fd out if they were boog bee a man was gay or bee of a policy they don’t agree wh.

But several other printial ndidat told ABC News that they did hear the boos rg through the Orange County Conventn Center, chants that were spurred by a qutn gay soldier Stephen Hill asked about the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Hill asked, “In 2010, when I was ployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was, bee I’m a gay soldier, and I didn’t want to lose my job, ” said Stephen Hill, whose image was projected on a large TV screen the bate hall.

“My qutn is, unr one of your princi, do you tend to circumvent the progrs that’s been ma for gay and lbian soldiers the ary? And wasn’t about Santom’s particular answer to a qutn he had received om a gay soldier named Stephen Hill via YouTube, but, rather, about the dience’s reactn to the soldier’s qutn.

GOP CANDIDAT REACT TO BOOED GAY SOLDIER

As you’re likely well aware, there was some sttered, but robt, boog emanatg om some the crowd last night after Hill asked “Do you plan to circumvent the progrs that has been ma for gay and lbian soldiers the ary? I nmn the people who booed that gay soldier. Bee, if you don’t, we’re left followg a distractg and potentially damng thread of nversatn, while the larger issu at hand — DADT and the fate of gay soldiers the ary — are shoved to the background.

Printial ndidate Mt Romney said on Monday that was not his practice to “sld the dience” for their behavr at bat, whether was boog a gay solir or cheerg for executns.

In an terview wh the edor and publisher of the New Hampshire Unn Lear on Monday, Romney said he did not see as his role to make a judgment about members of the dience at a recent bate Florida who booed when an openly gay Army soldier asked a viotaped qutn.

RICK SANTOM ON GAY SOLDIER BOOED DURG DEBATE: ‘DID NOT HEAR THOSE BOOS’

Rick Santom and openly gay and lbian troops servg the ary. Rick Santom, who has been targeted by gay rights groups the past, was asked by a morator at the Fox News-Google bate Orlando Thursday night about the repeal this week of the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward openly gay and lbian service members servg the ary.

“In 2010, when I was ployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was, bee I’m a gay soldier, and I didn’t want to lose my job, ” said Stephen Hill, whose image was projected on a large TV screen the bate hall.

But Hill has already gone public as a gay soldier. Leave alone, keep … to yourself, whether you’re a heterosexual or a homosexual. The policy took ne months to repeal and gays and lbians n publicly disclose their sexual orientatn whout fear of beg discharged, as of this week.

MT ROMNEY ON BOOG OF GAY SOLDIER: ‘I HAVE NOT MA IT MY PRACTICE TO SLD THE AUDIENCE’

“I nmn the people who booed that gay soldier, ” Santom said. But is not jt the boog that has gay rights groups perturbed.

Santom’s opn is that the man shouldn’t be able to serve as an openly gay man.

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Boos Heard At GOP Debate After Gay Soldier Asks About 'Don't Ask' : The Two-Way : NPR .

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