I think that we can all treat that statement with the contempt that it so richly deserves.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/09/frothy-mix-i-never-heard-any-boos.html

Can you even begin to imagine the hissy fit we would be hearing right now if any American active-duty soldier currently stationed in Iraq had been booed at a Democratic debate?

It would have been hyperbolic, relentless, and personal.

I’m furious.

This goes beyond Santorum. It wasn’t Santorum booing… it was “the people of the Republican Party.”

The leadership of the Republican Party now has an obligation to correct the image that was created at the debate. If, that is, they have any desire to do so.

And if they are afraid of offending haters by calling them on their hate, then they are complicit. You either oppose evil or you own it.

I have long been reluctant to automatically equate Republicans with homophobia and hatred. I know many good Republicans who have no animus towards gay people.

But a default position has been set. In my mind, “Republican” now means “hates gay people” unless there is some indication otherwise. Not because of the handful of booers, but because no one has called it what it is: hatred, unacceptable, and not a value that anyone of any party should view with anything but contempt.

As long as it is “unfortunate” or “ill advised” or “lacking in respect” then it is an oopsie, a faux pas.

No. This was not a faux pas.

It was people booing someone who is risking his life for them. And the reason they booed is because they felt comfortable in doing so. They assumed that those around them would not find their boos to be objectionable.

So far it seems that they assumed correctly.

As a citizen of Canada, I find this man insulting to me and all other world militaries that are not only gay-positive, but US allies.

Xenophobia, thy name is America, quickly on its way to being Margaret Atwood’s Republic of Gillead as found in her novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”.

All religion and no common sense.

How you have let these people usurp good government and determine social policy baffles us all.

Somehow, even the existence of principled republicans like Gary Johnston and Jon Huntsman could EVER get me to vote for any republican, ever.