Joseph Lieberman actually said...

Mr. Almy and Ms. Kopfstein were discharged solely on the basis of who they are.

There is no evidence that the presence of gay and lesbian colleagues would damage our military's ability to fight.

We probably have lost 13,000 or more Americans who are willing to serve, and that, to me, is a real loss of military effectiveness.

To me, that's vitally important in this kind of a pluralistic and diverse democracy that we have.