What a moment this week when, in front of a bursting room at the U.S. Department of Interior, President Obama signed legislation that authorizes the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s ban on openly gay servicemembers. The room was filled with scores of activists, politicians, and former members of the U.S. military discharged for being gay.
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Then, this morning on Good Morning America, Vice President Joe Biden was asked a question about marriage equality. And his answer? It only confirms what many of us have been saying for years: it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.
“I think the country’s evolving. And I think there’s an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage,” Biden said. He then compared the issue of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to marriage equality, saying that the pendulum swung on the issue of opening up the military, to the point where clear majorities saw ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as the right thing to do. Marriage equality, Biden said, is heading in a very similar direction.
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