Evan Bayh: “We must not let up now.”

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.

It's time now to allow men and women to serve their country and to do so without having to conceal their sexual orientation.

I had no idea until I was talking to Senator Bennet yesterday about his father's long commitment to public service.

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.