"Americans should be proud that this is just one more step in the ongoing recognition that we treat everybody fairly and that everybody's part of a family, and we judge people on the basis of their character and their performance and not their sexual orientation, " he said.
But, the scurrilous allegations of sexual harassment and then an affair were attacks on his character, something for which his experience as CEO could not prepare him.
Infidelity, sexual perversions, arrogance and the full spectrum of morally repugnant character traits will deliver a jury verdict for the prosecution more reliably than actual evidence of wrongdoing.