Last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell presided over the swearing in of Michael Guest, an openly gay man, as U.S. Ambassador to Romania. Guest, a career foreign service officer, won easy confirmation from the Senate last month. At the ceremony, Secretary Powell acknowledged Guest's domestic partner of six years, teacher Alex Nevarez, who plans to join Guest in Bucharest.
Hmmm.. Social functions could be awkward. Lord help us if Alex shows up in a evening gown.
I would like to know exactly what this means. If Powell privately and personally, one-on-one, glad-handed Nevarez and wished him the best--that's one thing. But if he acted publically, under the aegis of his office, to acknowledge this foul partnership and implied in any way, shape, or fashion that gay partnerships are acceptable fare within the State Department I want him replaced at Secretary of State at earliest convenience.
Gay partnership, like abortion, is a bright line issue with many of us. This adiministration will lose our support if they tolerate this abomination. They will have to try to recruit votes from the pro-sodomy libertarians or morally relativistic liberals to remian in contention in the next national election.
And I would feel exactly the same way if Powell had acknowledged an adulterous relationship by an ambassador.