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VP Joe Biden Indicates Approval of Marriage Equality

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden on Sunday said he doesn’t think that there should be any legal barriers to same sex marriage.

In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Biden told moderator David Gregory that more and more Americans will come to understand “what this is all about … who do you love? Who do you love, and will you be loyal to the person you love?”

“Look, I am Vice President of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights. All the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that. [...]

“People fear that which is different, and now they’re beginning to understand.”

The Vice-President’s remarks may signal a shift in public policy by the President who has maintained that his views on same-sex marriage are evolving, however a spokesperson from the vice president’s office has since denied that Biden’s remarks were an endorsement of same-sex marriage.  READ MORE AT LGBTQ NATION

 Melanie Nathan: Yet what everyone seems to forget is that President Obama has said that he would sign the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, (DOMA) known as the Respect for Marriage Act, sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein.

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VP Biden: Gay Marriage is Inevitable

Friday, December 24th, 2010

Joe BidenWhat 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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