Evan Bayh: “Well, let me ask you this, then. Based upon assuming that there is a reasonable improvement in market conditions...”

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 have been hoping that this clearing process would take place, that we would get footing under the real estate sector.

We need to be realistic about that.