In addition to being “thoughtful, intelligent, and articulate,” they are both veterans.

Their military experience has to have given them insight in to all sides of the DADT issue.

Not only did Murphy teach law at USMA (West Point), he is an Iraq war veteran who earned the rank of Captain in the 82nd Airborne Division.

Sestak had a 30+ year career in the Navy, rising to the rank of 3 star Admiral, who commanded an entire aircraft carrier battlegroup.

Here are two ranking veterans from two different branches of the military. This should give them enormous credibility.

Sadly, this will probably mean nothing to the wingnut McCain supporters.

I, too, am an almost proud Pennsylvanian. I am very impressed with Patrick Murphy (PA) lead sponsor of the repeal of DADT, and now with Joe Sestak.

Murphy and Sestak are both thoughtful, intelligent, articulate members of Congress.

I considered voting for Arlen Specter because I thought he had a decent record on gay rights and that his seniority might give him (and our state) more influence. Now that I’ve watched this piece, I’m probably changing my mind.

Are any fellow Queerty readers familiar with Specter’s record?

I’m tired of hearing about this “sharing the shower” crap. When stupid rebuttals like this are brought up, I think a good response might be that most other free nations in the world allow gays in their military, and it hasn’t been an issue.

The one point the caller makes about being back home and sharing a shower with gays, the straight men feeling uncomfortable. Get over it! It’s like all gay men are out to “get” a straight guy. We can’t control ourselves. We instinctivly want to look, touch, grope. C’mon.