During an appearance on The Ellen
DeGeneres Show, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the
booing of a gay service member during last week's GOP presidential
debate “unthinkable.”
During the televised Fox News/Google
debate, presidential candidate Rick Santorum answered a question
submitted by Stephen Hill, a gay soldier serving in Iraq.
Referring to the recent repeal of
“Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” Hill, dressed in an Army t-shirt, asked
via a YouTube clip: “Do you intend to circumvent the progress that
has been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?”
The audience booed Hill's question, but
cheered Santorum when he called DADT
repeal a “tragic social experiment” and vowed he would reinstate
the policy, if elected president.
Pelosi told host Ellen DeGeneres that
the “jeering” was “unthinkable.”
“It's unthinkable … that none of
the people who would be president, would be commander in chief, call
a halt, make a statement right then and there, that that was totally
unacceptable in our country,” she said. (The video is embedded in
the right panel of this page.)
(Related: Obama
says GOP booing of gay soldier “not who we are.”)