Evan Bayh: “I think we would all agree that we have a strong interest in avoiding that.”

It's time now to allow men and women to serve their country and to do so without having to conceal their sexual orientation.

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.

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.