This interview is not fair. Putting that quote to him like that is slimy, and equating race with sexual preference is nuts. 

rick/bigot,

please, just stop talking

Gays were born gay. They can’t choose who they are, much like people in general who didn’t choose the  ethnicity they were born into.

Like most Republican men, Santorum can’t stop thinking about other men’s penises. 

it’s perfectly acceptable

homosexuality is an inextricable part of ones identity, like race

Hey Rick—The economy sucks.  How about talking about something besides abortion and gays for once?

I have found it quit interesting that in my 66 years of life the number of people I have known, who lived a so called streight lifestyle, that at some point in their 20′s or 30′s discovered that they actually preferred others of the same sex. They were still the same person to me but just showed up at parties or to visit with a same sex friend. Admittedly odd at first but a friend is always a friend.

I think I saw you chanting with this group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI

Is Chris Wallace gay?

This marks a wonderful shift in the political climate.  A few years ago, hating gays was the central theme of Republican politics.  Now we have a Republican media shill questioning a Republican moron about his hate for gays.

Google Santorum.

About the only people that want gays in the military are gays and friends and families of gays to afraid to challenge them on their unwise lifestyle choice.

If Rich Santorum thinks being gay is a choice, when did he choose to be straight? 

Congrats..you win the prize for the most idiotic statement of the day…….lifestyle choice…really?

Congrats..you win the prize for the most idiotic statement of the day…….lifestyle choice…really?

That is not factual.

That is not factual.

Using Rick Santorum’s logic, if being black was a choice, would it have been okay to shun african-american men and women from the army? 

Poor Santorum.  No matter what he does or how he tries to reinvent himself all anyone in the media is ever going to want to talk to him about is his opinions on gays.

I’ve said this before on this site (I think it was this site), but Santorum is a bit of a sad anachronism in a post DADT, Tea Party world.  No one cares about social issues anymore (or they do, but they aren’t the wedge issues they once were), and since Santorum is the “social issue” guy he’s having a hard time reinventing himself and gaining any traction anymore.  But thanks to his google problem, he’ll always be associated with his nearly decade old statements on homosexuals and people will always see him as the “social issues” guy–so even though he might want to call attention to other accomplishments or try to reinvent himself to keep pace with the “Tea party” times people are always just going to see him as “the anti-gay rights guy” as opposed to associating him with anything else he’s done. 

This is already a problem for him in 2011, but it’s going to get worse and worse as homosexuality becomes more and more of a non-issue in this country.  I would suggest that he start looking for a new line of work outside of politics.

People WERE gay and aren’t gay anymore? Is this guy for real?

People WERE gay and aren’t gay anymore? Is this guy for real?

“Lifestyle choice”… you can think want you want, but people with intelligence have a different point of view!!

Yes yes! Finally we have equality on these message boards. The stupid have access to computers and are commenting. You go Mary!!! Good job. You did good. Yay!

‘About the only people that want gays in the military are gays and friends and families of gays to afraid to challenge them on their unwise lifestyle choice.’

According to whom or what is this supposed to be based on?

They are free and entitled to live their lives as openly as anyone else. The fact that some narrow minds don’t like it including Santorum doesn’t make it less so or change the repeal of DADT.

No, he has a wife and four kids.

 If Wallace was a republican he’s be a full on RINO +.
The apple not falling far from the tree  gives another chance to expose the Wallace family dark side.

It’s their mating call

I DON’T HAVE ANY FACTUAL INFORMATION
-Glenn beck.

I DON’T HAVE FACTS TO BACK THIS UP
-Herman Cain

I saw three Republican candidates interviewed this morning:  Bachmann, Cain and Santorum.  All of them are so out of touch with reality and social issues that none of them are electable. Nor are any of the other R candidates. It’s really kind of shocking that they have no one to put out there that’s anywhere near appealing to most Americans. Welcome to a second term, Mr. Obama.

They all seem to do well with people who dont like Mormons.

Mary…I’ll put this in a way you might be able to understand….being gay/lesbian isn’t a choice…just like you being stupid isn’t a choice…you were born that way

According to
Google
Bing
Webcrawler
Yahoo
Dogpile
Metacrawler

he is real

It is a pretty swift change.  Increasingly I don’t think gay-baiting type agendas are going to fly in the GOP like they once did as it seems like public opinion is changing pretty drastically.  It makes me wonder how some of the anti-gay marriage state amendments on the ballet in 2012 will do.  

This is off topic, but I think many in the GOP are underestimating just how much Romney’s Mormonism could hurt him.  Evangelical, right wing, Christians are a HUGE portion of the GOP base and I have heard many say that they would never vote for a Mormon under any circumstances.  If Romney gets the nomination it could be an interesting race just because I expect he will spend most of the time campaigning towards moderates and independents rather than catering to the GOP base as McCain and GW Bush have had to do in the past 3 elections.  There’s a good portion of the GOP base who would never vote for Romney anyway, so it’d be a waste of time for him to try.

Homosexuality is a behavior. No one is born gay, they chose to be gay. Check out 
this website: http://manupflorida.blogspot.com/

The gay community wants to redefine pedophiles as “minor-attracted persons”. Is there a pedophile gene? Read this column: http://manupflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/b4u-act-baltimore-conference-pedophiles.html

Yes, very swift. Among other things, I think Republicans are trying to differentiate themselves from al Qaeda and the Taliban. People have been confusing the three because they promote the same social agenda.

Agree. This is a set up. Wallace is trying to push the idea that being a minority is the same as a sexual behavior. Santorum is right – the military is not a vehicle for sexual experimentation. The real issue behind the repeal of DADT was to get the military to marry gays, thereby forcing the Obama agenda to challenge the Defense of Marriage Act.

I should add a significant number of RC’s won’t be able to vote for a Mormon, either.

So is pedophilia an inextricable part of one’s identity? Check out this column: http://manupflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/b4u-act-baltimore-conference-pedophiles.html

Santorum will never be president. He still doesn’t realize we are int he 21th century, not the 1950′s.

Nellie – that is a false question. I was born a man. I choose not to have sex with other men. Homosexuality is a sexual behavior that 99.3% of Americans do not participate in. Is a person born a pedophile? B4U – ACT thinks so and they are supported by the gay community. Read this column: http://manupflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/b4u-act-baltimore-conference-pedophiles.html

I agree.

Remember this guy.
This one is still on Drudge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrpCpUX0QUo

This might come as a shock to you, Struck, but democracy is generally considered a good thing.  And unlike the Teabaggers, the protesters get to decide for themselves whether or not government officials get to run their demonstrations.  The reason you’re confused is because you’re an authoritarian.  You don’t understand the concept of democracy; you only follow your leaders.

Actually, it is gays who are penis centrist. A recent study proves so. Read about it here: http://manupflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/courtesy-of-eugene-delgaudio-president.html

The study found that gay men with large appendages are on top, as they say.

Actually, Rick didn’t ask the question – Wallace did and forced Rick to answer it. 

Great.  Keep posting all of your penis research to prove your point.  You’re doing a heckuva job.

Not true. You are telling one of the Five Great Gay Lies. Read this column: http://manupflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/five-great-gay-lies.html

My favorite Rick Santorum bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ANrvQC4wIk

It’s true: rationalism and science are not fair–exposing stupidity is not fair to stupid people.

Checked out your site.Quite the obsession there.

Rick Santorum would feel very comfortable in Saudi Arabia–where women can’t drive and homosexuality “doesn’t exist.”

99.3.Yet your twisted in knots about it.

The Republicans with their dwindling demographic of older white phobias will be extinct if they refuse to join the modern world. That is probably a good thing.

You know why Conservatives/Republicans can’t come to terms with gay being biological?… they believe God created everything so if gay is biological then god created gays. God’s children. 

Don’t kid yourself,the tribe will always toe the line.ABO

Your relying rather heavily on that link.  Also, your giving it much more gravitus than it merits.  Lynchburg, Virginia, and Liberty University are not the center of scientic research on homosexuality.  A conference was held there this last August.  The gay community does not necessarily support pedophilia just because of what a few people say at a summer meeting for psychologists and other interested parties.  Not all gay people agree with (or are even aware of) what ACT UP’s view happens to be at any given time.

Rick ‘Google’ Santorum has no chance so he is letting all his crazy out.

Does this mean Santorum is a bottom?

Voting Republican is a choice. A very bad one.

You think a “column” written on a blog is proof? How about a study done at UC Davis that states:

Are homosexual adults in general sexually attracted to children and are preadolescent children at greater risk of molestation from homosexual adults than from heterosexual adults? There is no reason to believe so. The research to date all points to there being no significant relationship between a homosexual lifestyle and child molestation. There appears to be practically no reportage of sexual molestation of girls by lesbian adults, and the adult male who sexually molests young boys is not likely to be homosexual (Groth & Gary, 1982, p. 147).

http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html

You think a “column” written on a blog is proof? How about a study done at UC Davis that states:

Are homosexual adults in general sexually attracted to children and are preadolescent children at greater risk of molestation from homosexual adults than from heterosexual adults? There is no reason to believe so. The research to date all points to there being no significant relationship between a homosexual lifestyle and child molestation. There appears to be practically no reportage of sexual molestation of girls by lesbian adults, and the adult male who sexually molests young boys is not likely to be homosexual (Groth & Gary, 1982, p. 147).

http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html

Exactly! Why is it my business which hole the prefer?

Think happy thoughts.

Since when we all have to be on board with a law that I think is way off base. The Defense of Marriage Act,and DADT opens a door that no one has a clue what will be unleashed.
Heterosexual males and Homosexual males have no business showering together as the same with a male and female. How stupid one has to be to not see what is wrong with this picture.
Now on the news we have a man who wants to marry his two girlfriends not Mormons just a guy., Next if you love your brother or sister and if one dies, if you were married you could get all legally,no problems. This can go  on and it’s a Pandoras box. They never took the time to see it’s end goal. It was done for votes nothing more than votes.So don’t think the powers that be were so incredible to look to a curious happiness. It will come back to haunt us all.

This blog that you keep referencing to “prove” your ridiculous statements is a far-right, anti-gay rag.
Next you’ll be calling up Shirley Phelps from the Westboro Baptist Church to corroborate your foolish assertions.

…just don’t do an image search.

Yes, this is so obvious.  I mean, it is wonderful being gay.  I am thinking about it and I might do it.  I mean, yeah, I like women, but what the hell, I might as well be mocked and abused and ridiculed so I can sex it up with another man.

Why on earth would anyone CHOOSE to be gay? 

Maybe because a Democracy sucks. All you have to do is buy votes in a Democracy.

That is why we here in the US are fighting to save our Constitutional Republic.

Ask the priests…

This is a right-wing HATE BLOG. It only proves that hateful bigots have just as much right to post crap on the internet just like the rest of us.

Ricky sure does spend alot of talking about the gays…seems to be on his mind ALOT….very much so…

Where Santorum is wrong is.. 

In the assumption that everyone who comes out as gay

HAS OR IS HAVING GAY SEX.  He keeps talking about actions.

In Santorum’s ignorant mindset, he thinks nobody is gay

unless they “actually have gay sex”.  He does not think it’s an orientation.

In his twisted mind you have no sexual orientation - until you act on it.

He’s completely ignorant of this issue.  I think we know what sex we’re interested in

before we actually have sex!  lol

I wonder if a bunch of bullies used to call him gay or made fun of him in gym class because he ran like a girl or something…and this is his way of getting back..there hasto be some reason he has gay men on his mind so much.

You are stuck on the 1960 Hollywood version of gays, all flashy and “flaming.”
It IS a lifestyle choice to be obviously effeminate or butch in a way that you probably imagine all gays are, but men who want to wear gaudy clothing and/or be flirtatious with other men do not want to join the military.
Look at all the macho guys like Santorum who never even considered the military as a career choice. HE knew HE did not belong in the military.

Any blog that references hateful Scott Lively is bigoted, homophobic trash as far as I’m concerned. This is proof only of the fact that you’re a nutcase just like them. Lively was directly involved in the KILL THE GAYS bill in Uganda. He’s a real charmer.

Pedophilia has and will always be around.

Kings EVEN had sex with young teenage boys.

Secondly, pedophilia occurs for both straight and gay people.

But I honestly doubt their exclusively attracted to minors.

That’s to say – they’re attracted to non-minors as well.

Therefore I don’t see any evidence it’s an orientation.  

It’s more of a fetish or body type interest.  

:) lol, what a topic!

I’m gay, and I can assure you that I didn’t just decide one day that I would like men. Rick Santorum lost his Senate seat by a whopping 18% because of his ignorance.

Again, I have to state this.  It’s time for the Republican Party to split
The “Grand Old Party” can keep
social conservatives
neo-conservatives

The “Grand New Party” would have
Enviro-conservatives
Pro-choice conservatives and other social moderates
Fiscal conservatives
Paleo-Conservatives and other non-interventionists
Libertarians
Gay rights and civil-rights conservatives

Don’t believe that the split would happen this way?  Read Margaret Hoover’s
“American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party”

a link to a BLOG is hardly proof to back up your point. your ability to give credence to a blog only perpetuates your idiocy. try escaping from your bubble of hate, it’s nice out here. you’re a dying breed, you know that? just like the ill-informed racists who opposed de-segregation and inter-racial marriage, all of you homophobes will be mocked by future generations. get on the right side of history, moron.

99.3??   Where do you get your stat?   So, you’re saying only about 2.31 million people in the US are gay..  I guess it was a coincidence that I worked at a company in which 1/4 of the people there were gay. 

In San Francisco, an estimated 14.9% of the people consider themselves gay.  In Seattle, it’s 12.9%.  It’s probably close to that number in most major metropolitan area. 

Really well said, Juan.

no one cares about your blog! my 9 year old nephew has a blog.. does that mean his opinion should be shared as absolute truth? you are only hurting your cause when you continue to post links to a BLOG. 

The military is not a place for any kind of sex whatsoever, and one’s sexual orientation has no business being worried about in the military as well.  Just as one’s race has no bearing on one’s ability to fight. 

When you’re in a tank, and the enemy is firing shells at you, you’re not going to be worried about the tank commander checkin out your rear.  And if you are, then you have no business in the military to begin with.

The reason why the quote was used was because it was false then when it was used regarding race, and it’s false now regarding sexuality. 

Believe me, I know plenty of gay people that would love kicking a homophobe’s (like you) butt, and would have no problem doing it physically.  And you would have no idea that they were gay if they didn’t tell you.  In fact I know one gay man that’s 7’4″ 350 pounds and would break you like a twig.

Exactly. The anti-gay priests who turn out to be gay chose to become homosexual.

Anyone notice Drswier is only using one link to bolster his case, and not a single one is fact based or science based>>>>>I smell a paid troll.

Anyone notice Drswier can only use a blog to bolster his opinion? No fact or science base link. Someone is a paid troll.

BTW- Pedophilia usually involves a straight adult and a minor. 

Rick, I applaud this comment. I’m glad to see most of the commenters on this article are using logic and reasoning to dispell these ridiculous homophobic arguments.

No, it was done for fairness. If a gay soldier wants to risk his or her life fighting for the country that they love, more power to them! We should ALL support that.

Gay soldiers have always been in the military. The fact that they are able to make their sexuality known makes no difference in how they perform their duties.

Sounds like Bachmann’s husband isn’t the only closet case in the GOP…

Yes, gays are penis centrists, you know…like lesbians. Oh, wait…

Here’s a clue Mr. Hawk I don’t have to like or accept it either. Last time I looked I still have that freedom.I know much about what I say been around them for years through the workplace and let me tell you they don’t act like the rest of the heterosexual population in public that is.And if you disagree than I know you’re an Idiot! Walking and talking like the rest of the sheep, that you are suppose to accept makes me nuts. I don’t mean to disrepect but I don’t have to go along with these so called laws for votes, why because BOG BROTHER TELLS YOU SO?

thats funny coming from a mormon. what about marriage? lets ask what mitt the mormon thinks about gay marriage!

Its also comical coming from a network that is against the “gay agenda” lets watch hannity or oreilly and see what they say. these clowns have no credibility! garnering votes and ca$h for the mormon candidate (like the mormon god did, he apparently hated blacks till 78) they are about to push is the only thing they want to do!

So does Bachmann’s gay husband.

Santorum doesn’t like gays, and he favors war with Iran.  Why doesn’t he allow gays to enlist, so they
can be sent to the front in one of the Neocon’s endless wars? 

Two birds, one stoning.

Anyone who thinks being gay is a choice has to also believe that at some point they themselves chose to be straight.  Listen folks, when even Fox News is saying people have to just get over the whole gay issue, the discussion is over. 

In Canada, England, Australia, and military services all over the globe have allowed gay men and women in for more than a decade.  There hasn’t been a revolt, nothing has changed, they do they same good work they did for centuries before.  America needs to look outside its borders at what’s going on in the world.

this dude is still having sex with his wife in the dark…..she gets in first..fully dressed…he turns the light off…..unzips his pants… climbs aboard..does his thing …climbs off in the dark and runs to the john….

and this has happened 7 times

(result 7 kids)

best laugh I’ve had all day

best laugh I’ve had all day

let me tell you they don’t act like the rest of the heterosexual population in public that is

do you mean like Robert Reed (Mr Brady) like Rock Hudson?

Or do you mean like Larry Craig – like Ted Haggard?

good point

or a religious homophobe

Conservatives didn’t like DADT when they first put it in. They thought it was giving “special rights” to homosexuals. DADT replaced the old practice of drumming anybody out of the military suspected of being gay. Why are they so in favor of restoring DADT? Wouldn’t they really prefer a return to the old practice?

A recent study by Dr Swier (see above) found that if a mans genitals were larger than his, he liked to be on the bottom.
http://manupflorida.blogspot.com/drswier

“If Rick Santorum thinks being gay is a choice, when did he choose to be straight?” 
yes, because his soul is morally responsible. (is the answer Santorum would probably hint at. because he is a fucking idiot with a worldview that is based on the existence of MAGIC)

 ”If Rick Santorum thinks being gay is a choice, when did he choose to be straight?” 

yes, because his soul is morally responsible. (is the answer Santorum would probably hint at. because he is a idiot with a outdated worldview that is based on the existence of MAGIC)

Bullshit. 

Amen brother. 

I understand why conservatives get so worked up about homosexuality. It is obviously a sin in the Abrahamic traditions, that much is undebatable. So, if homosexuality is natural, which of course it is, then a major premise of these religions is proven incorrect (yet again) . In other words, god is wrong (big surprise) . Conservatives fight tooth and nail against issues they will inevitably lose in time. Like civil rights, temperance movements, porn, evolution, abortion, etc. gay rights will be a no brainer at some point in the future. So, get on the right side of history for once and support your local homosexual. 

Where did I say you had to like it. You have every right not to like them. You have no right to deny them rights and freedoms like the rest of us. My response to mary was just pointing out her ignorance in stating that being gay is an active choice.

Wrong.

Wrong.

Liberal trash.

Another Republigoon having another “Come-To-Jesus” moment.  It’s widespread among the more rancid masses.

Because the 21st century is so effing great.

Obama espoused traditional marriage when running for President and was elected. I know he’s out of touch with reality now, was he out of touch then too?

You’re the bigot.

I thought only Democrats belonged to the KKK?

Better stupid than a fudge packer.

Intelligent cum guzzlers?

Do you hate people who are left-handed, too?

I guess you are OK with being stupid. I’m happy for you.

I guess you are OK with being stupid. I’m happy for you.

 Acquiring desires doesn’t justify that behavior any more than being born with a tendency toward anger (another behavior problem) justifies gay bashing.

The problem with this behavior problem is their ever expansion of their perceived rights..and their ever increasing force feeding of it into everyones lives……..but that is Liberalism as a whole……..no limits, no borders, never stop.

what is the next behavior problem that will be force fed to society—sex offenders?  Pediofila?  sex with animals?………..

Its just another Liberal “religion” that gets force fed to everyone ala radical enviromentalism…………and yet they do anything possible to exterminate and extinguish Christianity at every turn possible.

We are
closing schools, laying people off. Families are being foreclosed on and being
put out in the streets. And all the Republicans running for President can talk
about is who is Gay. We need to start looking at what is best for the country.
We are not in high school any more. 
Hello!!!

i just want to know why straight conservatives are more gay than gay liberals?

the entire gop presidential group are the most motley/gay group of freaks i have ever seen..
sean hannity is totally gay..
bill O was actually caught with shower utesils up his rectum..
web porn/homo/military/erotica dude allowed to ask BUSH questions as a member of the media?
karl rove? gay..
lil dick cheney–torture fetish–
lil dickie morris? gay..
if i get into the congress? OMG–it will take all day..
just watch any of them–McConnel, Boner…it is beyond ovious…
really—even fox news has more closet queens than my 5 year old neices dollie collection..

so i just want to know–why are straight republicans more gay than gay liberals?

but the odd thing is—
homosexual men are not convicted of pedophelia by large–
IT IS STRAIGHT CONSERVATIVE MEN—THESE ARE YOUR CHILD MOLESTERS..
the church was a haven for child abuse and stil is..
the chuch and military has always been where homosexuals go to be around ‘their own’…
just the facts folks..

Homosexual feelings are part of a psychological disorder that is preventable and treatable.  Fact.  Forty years of Leftist cultural brainwashing don’t change the truth.

See http://www.narth.com, http://www.gaytostraight.org, http://www.peoplecanchange.com, http://www.pfox.org, and http://www.jonahweb.org.  The truth will out.

Santorum is stuck in the wrong CENTURY.  Can someone PLEASE invent the time machine already and send this douchebag BACK to the 1800s!?  

He says that DADT was “about sexual behavior”, and therefore, repealing it is a “bad idea.”  One can ONLY have such a view if they believe that homosexuality FORCES YOU TO HAVE UNCONTROLLABLE SEXUAL URGES THAT MAKE YOU TO MOLEST AND/OR SCREW PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHAT.  Wallace kept qualifying the DADT repeal by TELLING SANTORUM WHAT IT ACTUALLY DID, but Santorum CONTINUED to whine and complain about how “being gay is different” than being black.  NO IT’S NOT!  Most people who are sraight, gay, whatever, DON’T really have much ability to change, or at least not GO FROM ONE TO THE OTHER.  They don’t TRY to change their sexual orientation because THAT’S A PART OF WHO THEY ARE!  Most people don’t see being gay or straight as some kind of HINDRANCE; it’s just another facet of their identity and being.  Why SHOULD they care so much??

By the way, do conservatives NOT realize that the decision didn’t really CHANGE MUCH?  All it did was ENABLE GAYS TO BE OPEN ABOUT IT while serving!  It DID NOT change the situation from having no gays in the military to FULL gayness.  Obviously, there WERE gays serving in the military, and until or unless a commanding officer could either PROVE or SUSPECT one of them was gay, they could serve!  In fact, over 62,000 servicemen and women who are LBGT have been DISCHARGED since DADT was passed!  

Conservatives will ALSO be delighted to know that at least a dozen or two dozen FIRST WORLD militaries (and some in the developing world or even a few in the Third World) INCLUDE OPEN GAY SOLDIERS!  With NO COMPLICATIONS!  And btw, what about STRAIGHT male soldiers who RAPE FEMALE COLLEAGUES??  Where’s the outrage over THAT, Santorum?  Or how about women who work for contractors in Iraq that were raped by colleagues who can’t sue and get their employers DEALT WITH properly?  

But NOOOO…. Let’s focus on this mythical “scourge” of gay rapes in the barracks and on the battlefield, rather than just ADMIT that gay people aren’t so bad after all, that homosexuality is just another sexual preference like heterosexuality, and no one HAS to live the same private life as his fellow man.

Homosexuality IS a mental sickness and ALL homosexuals ARE mentally sick, delusional, PSYCHOTIC!

I agree with what Mr. Santorum was trying to say to Mr. Wallace but didn’t quite know how to put it.  I served in the U.S. Navy for 26yrs and I am going to try too explain it from that viewpoint and feel that I have earned the right to be heard.  My first question is, why do you suppose men and women have seperate sleeping areas onboard U.S. Navy Vessels?  I am going to go out on a limb and say that the main reason was to reduce the incedents of sexual contact between presumed heterosexual men and women.  Now you want me to believe that you are going to have openly gay men that already had contact problems with straight men before DADT was repealed, that feel the same about men as heterosexual men feel about women in the same sleeping areas, showering in the same areas and getting dressed in the same areas and there not be any problems?  I guess that you also want me to believe that these openly gay men are also going to have such control that, knowing that they desire someone sexually, seeing them walking around naked at times in sleeping areas, showering and getting dressed isn’t going to be a problem either?  Honestly speaking, I know for sure that I would be in a lot of trouble if I slept in the same area as women. That being said, let’s presume for an instance that this is the case, then why not just allow everyone to sleep together?  To answer that question bluntly, because we know that there will be an increase of sexual contact incedents.  Look, I can understand why most civilian may not see what the problem is with gays in the military, and I believe it is because they are failing to look beyond their own situations, where after the end of their typical 9-5 job, everyone goes home.  This is not the case with the U.S. Navy, where you have to deal with 24 hour Duty days, 1-5 week plus training and workup cycles in preperation a 6-9 month deployment and that’s during normal operations, not to say how that will be extended in this environment of war, and all this at the same time being face to face, nutt to butt with someone that you may have thought was gay at one time but now you know is gay, and that isn’t going to be a problem?  I am going to close with this, I think that this whole experiment is inhumane to homosexuals.  Yes this is what I believe because to put these people that have the desires that they have for the same sex, in the same sleeping areas with those that they desire and expect them to be hands off would be to expect the same of Heterosexual men if in a sleeping area with women.  Bottom line is  that this is a dangerous political game that the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen has started along with the President and the rest of the silent Flag Officers and Generals are playing with our National Security all because of a Campaign Promise!!!!! 

I disagree, back in the day white people were very uncomfortable with black people. They certainly didn’t want to shower with them, sleep with them, or do anything with them. Remember, interracial marriage used to be illegal because miscegenation was seen as a bad thing.
In the end, supporters of don’t ask don’t tell are basically saying “I’m not comfortable with gay people.”To that I say, GROW UP! The military isn’t some sort of Burger King where you get to have it your way and serve with people you like. The military has all kinds of people, from small towns to big cities, from rednecks to former gangbangers, from Christians to Wiccans (yup, the military isn’t uncomfortable with witches, they even get their own chaplains). Why? Because it’s all about being physically strong. 

Now I’m not gonna blame Santorum for being angry at the gays, after all, Dan Savage did a job on him, but the military already conducted their own survey, did their own studies, and decided to get rid of the policy, which is a good thing.As a taxpayer I don’t want to spend money on soldiers that can get out of the military by coming out. In fact, some straight soldiers have said they’re gay to escape the military. Sorry boys, I paid taxes, I want a return on my investment. In the case of the Air Force, it can cost $3 million to train just one pilot, you think I want those $3 million wasted just because of a stupid policy? Nonsense. I demand my money’s worth. 
LIBERTARIAN ANSWER TO WALL STREET PROTESTORS. 
http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/10/libertarian-answer-to-wall-street.html

I bet Santorum has a REAL W I D E stance!

Funny, you seem to exhibit all those same characteristics.

I can point you to so many articles and websites that debunk these claims that it would make your head spin. These groups only harm people by promising things that cannot be delivered and perpetuate myths about homosexuality. Please, if you don’t know what you’re talking about, just shut up.

really don’t have much to say do you?  half-wit

He said his position is “evolving.”

Clearly Santorum’s is DEvolving.

Wow.  How do manage to go about your day running the gauntlet of mentally deranged monsters brushing up against you?  I’m betting you got a little touch of “The Gay” yourself. 

You sound really dumb, so I’ll keep this simple. Every poll in the last couple of years of Americans showed overwhelming support for lifting DADT.  Every country that has removed bans on gays serving has done so successfully, with minimal disruption. It’s only the GOP hardcore right wing that still clings to the idea of making gays ride in the back of the bus.

First of all, with all due respect to your military service, I’m sure you served with gay people during your time in the navy.  What makes you think gay service members are not capable of professional behavior just the same as their heterosexual brothers/sisters in arms.  Most western military’s have stopped discriminating against gay service members with no problems.  If the Israeli army, which is in a state of perpetual war can incorporate gays into military service what makes you think the US military can’t do the same?  Thank you for your service.

Santorum: I am  homophobic, bla, bla, bla, I am homophobic, bla, bla bla, I am homophobic.

When did journalism turn into trying to inflict ones values on the interviewed? Wallace was insulting and wrong to accuse and “set-up” Santorum, with the quote,  in order to attack and persuade him of Wallace’s view . Rick Santorum was elaborating on his values and I commend him for that. He isn’t trying to hide them in order to get elected. Wallace needs to go back to journalism school..and learn how to interview for the sake of elaborating candidates values.

Who really cares what his views are on that topic?  The more troubling problem is that we have found yet another of the 8 or 9 candidates that cannot articulate his views in a competent manner.  From my count there are only 3 left that can put together a thought process.

For all you Obama haters who is the leader?  Your pool of candidates is pathetic!

Point taken and thank you, but what you fail to realize or just didn’t state is that the Isreali’s do what they do out of necessity, which is why everyone in the country is required to serve a minimum of two years in the Armed Forces. Fortunetly, we are not in that position here in the United States, and I have had the opportunity on a few occassions to visit and discuss various situations with the Isreali Military during deployments there, though I do envy the Isreali’s because of what they do with what little they have, I do not envy their position in the Middle East.  Now if you ask me my opinion, I would tell you that I don’t think that homosexuality is right, and yes the main reason that I feel that way is because of the Bible. As I said earlier, this is my opinion and I do hope that you can respect my repspect my opinion as I would respect yours.  Though the main reason for my belief is the Bible, I also look at Nature itself.  Though you do see some same sex animals that pair with each other, they rarely stay that way, now i wonder why that is?  Could it be that even they eventually realize that something isn’t right?  I don’t know, but what I do know is that you can’t pro-create with same sex couples, and simply put, it is my opinion that if you can’t pro-create naturally, something isn’t right.  Yes I have served with gay service members, some that I knew were gay, others I didn’t until there was an incident.  If you ask how I knew that they were gay, I would tell you that it was in fact because they could not restrain themselves and ended up doing something that caused them to get discharged from the service or the person that they did something to nearly killed them.  As I said before, I served for 26 years and I did see a lot during that time.  In some cases, I saw gays attacked for no reason and in others I saw gays sexually assault others for no reason except for the obvious.  I still stand by my initial posting, and that is what makes you or anyone else think that it is prudent to seperate heterosexuals from each other to reduce the instances of sexual contact/assault, and it be okay to place homosexuals/gays/lesbians in the same areas with men and women that they are sexually attracked to and presume that there isn’t going to be any problems?  

Thank you for your service. I have worked among gay people for over 35 years. I have never been hit on by another woman, I have never been made to feel uncomfortable by another woman. I have, on the other hand, been hit on by men (who I really did not want to be hit on by) and made to feel very uncomfortable by men.  While in college, I was never hit on by other women, in the shower, in the dorm or out in public. If any citizen of the US wants to be in the military, wants to put their life on the line every day, wants to protect the folks back home, good for them!!! They should not be prevented, unless they are psychotic. And being homosexual is not being psychotic. Find me a study that proves that.

Better half than none.

Chris,

Put down that Politically Correct Kool-Aid, for a moment, and THINK…

Having gay men sleeping and showering with other men (for whom, as a group, homosexual males have an attraction [sexual and otherwise]), makes about as much sense as allowing heterosexual males to sleep and shower with women (for whom, as a group, heterosexual males have an attraction [sexual and otherwise]).

Now, I’m not saying that gays don’t make FINE, patriotic members of our Armed Forces – I’m just saying that (as a practical matter), it is unthinkable to have “co-ed” arrangements for heterosexual members of our armed forces, and it is EQUALY unthinkable to have a similar arrangement based on living with the gender for which one has a romantic/sexual attraction!

If you aren’t aware of the fact…Most pedophiles are STRAIGHT, not gay. They are the parents, uncles or grandfathers of the people you went to school with..whether in K-12 or if you went to a University or a College. Since you didn’t know that most Pedophiles are straight…I’d guess you never went to College.

You must have an IQ of 75. The Religious Right is more likely to be members of the KKK, read about David Dukes a former GOP Presidential Candidate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke

This change now allows for heterosexuals to demand “co-ed” arrangements.  To deny “co-ed” arrangements would be saying heterosexuals cannot control themselves but homosexuals can control themselves.

Chris, I watch you every Sunday. I have noticed a Chris Matthews pattern coming from you lately. Perhaps you should head on over to MSNBC. I’m not a big Santorum fan, but I’m less of a fan of MSNBC tactics. If FOX goes that route, FOX will lose its ratings. I will no longer turn on Fox news on Sunday.

I never realized what wimps conservatives really are until 2008 when “what do you read?” became a “gotcha question.”

Now, by your standards, it’s even off limits to ask a candidate to explain his craziest policy ideas.

What babies you are now.

OMG, Faux is pissed. Why? Because Chris Wallace used FACTS in an interview with Santorum.

You are sadly mistaken. It is a lifestyle choice.

 hi, can we be friends. i,m abdul from ghana. please.

I could care  less if a  soldier is Gay or not . As long as he’s got my back when I’m gettin’ my ass shot off in battle!!!

ewwwww

agree
they have taken over

Only a retarded idiot would believe that being gay is a choice. You are the stupidest man alive.

I can’t believe just how fucking stupid you are Drswier. You are a bigot of the worst kind. Pathetic scum.