Evan Bayh: “I know they were searching for a mission. With the recent crisis, they have been resuscitated. God willing, that is a…”

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

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.

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.