Watch: Gay Soldier Booed At GOP Debate Talks On Hardball About Booing
The gay soldier who was booed at an October GOP debate, Stephen Hill, talked yesterday to Hardball’s Chris Matthews about the experience of being booed on national television. Hill says he worried he had done something wrong. Imagine that, the GOP diminishing the self-worth of an Army service member. Despicable.
Hill tells Chris Matthews that he was surprised and upset when Rick Santorum said allowing him to serve in the military was a “special privilege,” and adds that having to cover up evidence in his own home of his husband’s existence was no special privilege.
But Hill says the military has been great to him, even after his coming out. “When people know you as a soldier, that’s what matters to them.”
Hill is part of a group of soldiers who are suing the federal government over DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, that forces the federal government to not recognize same-​sex marriages.
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