GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum suggested today on Fox News Sunday that our men and woman serving in the uniform of our country make not be up to the task of showering with a gay fellow soldier. Yes, our brave men and women can face the daily threat of of death and/or dismemberment for IEDs. Our military's finest fighting unit, the Navy Seals, are up to the task of storming into a house in Pakistan in the dead of night and taking out Osama Bin Laden. But Oh My Gawd! You mean there might be a gay guy in the shower who might check out my butt???? I can't handle that!!!!
From Huffington Post:
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum doubled down on his recent comments opposing allowing gay soldiers to serve in the U.S. military, invoking the image of soldiers showering together to explain his support for reinstating the discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
"The problem is that sexual activity with people who you are in close quarters with who happen to be of the same sex is different than being open about your sexuality," Santorum said on "Fox News Sunday."
Fox host Chris Wallace pushed back, asking Santorum if he was suggesting gay soldiers would "go after" their colleagues.
"They're in close quarters, they live with people, they obviously shower with people," Santorum said, saying the presence of gay soldiers could have an adverse "effect on retention and recruitment."
Adverse effect on recruitment? Bullshit, we'll just get teh gays to fight our wars for us! We'll just tell them "Just think of all the hunks you'll get to check out in the showers!".
But then Wallace got the best of poor Rick FrothyMix - he played a clip of Santorum insisting during a recent Republican primary debate that the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" was an improper injection of "social policy" into the armed forces. He then presented a quote from a former military official to Santorum and asked whether he agreed with its basic idea: "The army is not a sociological laboratory. ... Experiments ... are a danger to efficiency, discipline and morale and would result in ultimate defeat." FrothyMix hemmed and hawed and then agreed with the general idea of the statement. Wallace then revealed that the quote was from a WWI era official whose comments were made in opposition to the racial integration of the military.