NEW YORK, NY – Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN this week that he supports marriage equality. “I have no problem with it,” the former fourstar general said. “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.” Powell, a centrist Republican who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 1989 to 1993 under President George H.W. Bush, and as Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 under President George W. Bush, supported President Obama’s 2008 election campaign.