Social experimentation

I don't know if you saw the debate or the furor afterwards regarding the booing of a (now) openly gay soldier serving overseas. The soldier posted a YouTube video featuring a question about the repeal of  Don't Ask Don't Tell. When he identified himself on the video as gay, more than one loud "booo" can be heard from the audience. The most remarkable thing is that until the Fox News personnel and the candidates left the hermetically sealed bubble in which the debate took place, it didn't occur to ANY of them to openly support the Serviceman or chastise the jerks in the audience.
Most now have distanced themselves from the vocal bigots, but Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has decided that maybe what we heard wasn't so bad. She defended the audience saying, "Were the boos directed...at the gay soldier, or at his question? Do they boo when they see he is a gay soldier, or when he makes clear that he wants gay rights protected?" and noting that there were "perhaps a total of two boos."
So really, it's fine to boo at a brave American who is willing to fight and die for your bigotted ass to sit comfortably in your LayZ Boy while you blather incoherantly about how the gays are ruining America. Or wait. You can boo at his question which was in effect asking for a reaffirmation of his right to FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY as an openly gay man instead of a fearful closeted homosexual. That's totally not the same thing as booing at the soldier himself.
I believe this comes from the self-righteously priggish school of "hate the sin, not the sinner" bull crap that moralistic gasbags trot out everytime they get offended by someone else's behavior.