Evan Bayh: “I am confident of the Secretary's interest in this issue, as well, and his good faith efforts.”

This is outrageous. How can this possibly happen?

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

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

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.