Powell Favors Same-Sex Marriage
'I Support The President's Decision,' Powell Tells CNN
By Gregory WallaceCNN
POSTED: 1:30 pm MDT May 23, 2012
UPDATED: 3:03 pm MDT May 23, 2012
(CNN) -- Gen. Colin Powell said Wednesday on CNN's "The Situation Room" that he supports legal same-sex marriage, either at the state or federal level.
"I have no problem with it," he said in the interview, which will air at 5 p.m. ET. "In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. And so I support the president's decision." ...
"It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred," Powell told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, recalling former President Bill Clinton's support of overturning a ban on military service for gay individuals. After public opposition, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," was seen as a compromise ...
He said he has "a lot of friends who are individually gay but are in partnerships with loved ones, and they are as stable a family as my family is and they raise children. And so I don't see any reason not to say that they should be able to get married under the laws of their state or the laws of the country." ...
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This is the image I will always see when I think of Colin Powell now:
Screw that asshole sideways for the destruction and harm he has caused to so many innocent people. His opinion about anything is completely irrelevant to me.
However, there are a number of people that still (for some reason) support him and value what he has to say. If his opinion is able to sway theirs to the side of equality, then I'm glad he has spoken out.
