Now how do I break this gently to Colin “I Have No Problem With Gay Marriage” Powell? Gay marriage isn’t what you support, sir.

In late May, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state came out in favor of same-sex marriage. Here are his comments, taken from a story on the Huffington Post Web site: “I have no problem with [gay marriage]. 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.”