Evan Bayh: “They seem to be--I do not want to say denial, but they are certainly downplaying the potential threat from the North.”

I believe is discriminatory. Times have changed since then and it seems to me we should respond to those changes, changes in the attitude of our people, the acceptance of gay and lesbian people in the workplace.

There's something fundamentally wrong about that. If we can pursue our Nation's security without putting them or us as a country institutionalizing hypocrisy, I think America is stronger, we are a more just and secure country.

Our national security has not been harmed by the integration of the Armed Forces.

If they become significantly affected by this, does that present a systemic risk of some kind?