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Source: Raw Story
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that he had no problem with President Barack Obamas recent endorsement of same sex marriage.
I have no problem with it, he told CNNs Wolf Blitzer. And it was the Congress that imposed Dont Ask, Dont Tell. It was certainly my position, and my recommendation, to get out us of an even worse outcome that could have occurred, if youll recall.
As the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993, Powell had opposed allowing gay men and lesbian women to serve openly in the military. But in 2010 he announced that he supported the repeal of the military policy known as Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
But, as Ive thought about gay marriage, I know a lot of friends who are individually gay but are in partnerships with loved ones, Powell added
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