Evan Bayh: “General, thank you for your devotion to both your soldiers and to our country.”

Our national security has not been harmed by the integration of the Armed Forces.

This is outrageous. How can this possibly happen?

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.

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.