Evan Bayh: “I am not a cynic, but I am a skeptic about the way Washington can work in times like these.”

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.

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

If they become significantly affected by this, does that present a systemic risk of some kind?

There's something fundamentally wrong about that. If we can pursue our Nation's security without putting them or us as a country institutionalizing hypocrisy, I think America is stronger, we are a more just and secure country.