Evan Bayh: “I personally think it is the right thing to do--but maintaining the appropriate balance of powers between the…”

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

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.

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.

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