Evan Bayh: “He is a man of integrity, intelligence, and as I have said, he focuses on the bottom line--how do we work together to…”

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.

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.

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

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