Former Secretary of State Colin Powell became the latest public official to back gay marriage on Wednesday.
“I have no problem with it,” he said on CNN, “and it was the Congress that imposed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, though it was certainly my position and my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred, as you’ll recall.”
“But as I’ve thought about gay marriage, I know 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,” he said. READ MORE.