Rick Santorum, who by the way, has no chance of winning the presidential election, went on air and states that we shouldn't be giving the gay soldiers the "special privilege" to remove "don't ask, don't tell." To force someone to believe that it would make some grown men uncomfortable is a joke! By the time you're in the Army, you're at least 18, you're an adult, and we hope in the real world. Being around a gay person isn't going to make you gay.

There are bombs, destruction, blood, fire, bullets, smoke, shock, screaming, terror, pain, sirens, and war! But being around a gay person is going to make soldiers uncomfortable?

Santorum also states it is a behavioral issue. Some gay people don't talk different, don't conduct themselves different, don't speak a different slang, or anything like that. Gay people are almost like straight people, gasp! So it's a behavioral issue?

Our generation accepted them because we know they're not that different from us. By accepting it, does this mean that we're going to walk like them, talk like them, act like them, and stuff like that? No. You're just accepting it. Accepting is not imitation. You either have it or you don't.

John Chu, Richland