Evan Bayh: “I think the Vice President said the other day you cannot run a war by committee.”

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

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.

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.