Evan Bayh: “General Amos and General Chiarelli, have you analyzed the extent of skill degradation given the shift in focus and 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.

I was really heartened to hear about the sort of tension about more transparency.

It is a practice I refer to as hostage taking for unrelated reasons.

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.