Evan Bayh: “The bottom line for me, Mr. Chairman, is that business as usual in Washington is not going to solve this problem.”

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.

This is outrageous. How can this possibly happen?

We are paying a macroeconomic price for the delay in resolving this issue.

In all likelihood there were gay Americans serving at Valley Forge, there were gay Americans at Gettysburg, there were gay Americans on Normandy Beach, there are gay Americans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today.