Video: Colin Powell Supports Marriage Equality

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Former Secretary of State under George W. Bush,  Colin Powell agrees with President Obama that gays and lesbians deserve equal rights:

 I have no problem with it, 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.

This endorsement is a very big deal.  Not only is Powell an extremely powerful man, he has served under GOP presidents as Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he is African American and very popular among both parties.

The tides are changing faster than I thought they would.  President Obama’s coming out in favor of LGBT equality has sped up the “evolution” on so many public figures…. I can only imagine it is having a similar effect on the general population.