Debate Crowd Booed Gay Soldier - ABC News

Contents:

• 4 YEARS AFTER BOOG A GAY SOLDIER, A REPUBLIN DEBATE CROWD CHEERS LGBT ACCEPTANCE
• OPN LISTENERS DIDN’T JT BOO A `GAY’ SOLDIER. THEY BOOED A SOLDIER.
• BOOS HEARD AT GOP DEBATE AFTER GAY SOLDIER ASKS ABOUT 'DON'T ASK'
• REPUBLIN DEBATE AUDIENCE BOOS GAY SOLDIER STEPHEN HILL AFTER DADT REPEAL QUTN (VIDEO)
• GOP CANDIDAT REACT TO BOOED GAY SOLDIER
• RICK SANTOM ON GAY SOLDIER BOOED DURG DEBATE: ‘DID NOT HEAR THOSE BOOS’
• MT ROMNEY ON BOOG OF GAY SOLDIER: ‘I HAVE NOT MA IT MY PRACTICE TO SLD THE AUDIENCE’
• DEBATE CROWD BOOED GAY SOLDIER

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

Stephen Hill, a gay U. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

", 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. “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.

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

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.

GOP CANDIDAT REACT TO BOOED GAY SOLDIER

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?

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

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.

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

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.

DEBATE CROWD BOOED GAY SOLDIER

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.