Joe Biden endorsing Same-Sex Marriage on “Meet the Press”, May 6 2012In an interview with David Greg
Joe Biden endorsing Same-Sex Marriage on “Meet the Press”, May 6 2012In an interview with David Gregory, Joe Biden said “The good news is that as more and more Americans come to understand what this is all about is a simple proposition. Who do you love? Who do you love and will you be loyal to the person you love? And that’s what people are finding out what all marriages at their root are about. Whether they are marriages of lesbians or gay men or heterosexuals. […] I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying 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. […] I think Will & Grace probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody has done so far. People fear that is different and now they’re beginning to understand.”As Vice President, Joe Biden made history in 2012 by becoming the highest ranking American official to ever back same-sex marriage.Three days later, on May 9, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to say he believed that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. And three years later, in June 2015, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that state-level bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutionalOn June 21, 2017, Joe Biden said at the DNC LGBT Gala “I want to make something very clear tonight. Over the years, many of you have thanked me for stating the obvious on ‘Meet the Press’. Some of you credited me with taking a political risk. I mean what I’m saying from the bottom of my heart, I give you my word as a Biden. I took no political risk. I took no chance. Though I thought I acknowledged that I was doing something special. But, folks, I was just answering a question directly put to me in what I’ve known my whole life as a proposition that my dad taught me and that lies at the core of what made me a democrat, and that is: Everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.” -- source link
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