Biden’s gay marriage ‘epiphany’ story contradicted by the historical record

President Joe Biden This week, he said in an interview that his parents had told him to change. “epiphany” On same-sex marriage He was a senior in highschool when he made the move.

Biden remembered seeing two “well-dressed men in suits” kissing. His father explained to him that the men loved each others.

This account has a problem because Biden didn’t endorse it. Gay marriage He was seeking a second term of vice president about six months prior to his 70th birthday. Vote to ban this practice at the federal level, and allow states to decline recognition of same-sex nuptials in other states.

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Richard GrenellBiden’s recollection was called by a gay conservative, who was director of national intelligence under President Donald Trump. “a whopper of a lie.”

This is the story of the author. Interview Former actor White House Kalpen Modi, staffer, looked absurd on the surface. Biden was a senior at high school in 1961. His father was born on December 15, 1915. Gay sex and gay marriage were not protected by the Supreme Court until 2003. This was an inversion of a 1986 Supreme Court decision. Biden was currently serving his third Senate term.

It is not the first time this has happened. White House has been involved in revisionist history regarding Biden and same sex marriage. “[T]his is something that he supports — this piece of legislation,” top Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre At a daily press conference last year, she told reporters. “And this is an issue, when it comes to marriage equality, that he has supported through — through his Senate days and as VP and now as president.”

Biden, a 2020 candidate, told a New Hampshire town hall that he “didn’t have to evolve at all” sur la matrimony sex-sex.

Biden voted against several constitutional amendments that would have made marriage a union between a man or a woman. He did not support same-sex marriage during his 36-year Senate career. In fact, he was just halfway through his second term as vice president when he finally supported it. This happened shortly before the former President. Barack Obama An identical change of heart was announced.

At that point, most Democrats supported gay marriage. Supreme Court It took just over two years for a ruling to declare it a constitutional rights. Gallup reported that 60% of the public supported same-sex marriage in the month preceding this decision.

In 1996, Biden was a Senator from Delaware and voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. It stopped the federal recognition for same-sex married couples and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex maritals in other states, without violating the full faith credit clause of U.S. Constitution.

Biden was not the only one to change his mind on gay marriage. Gallup polls showed that just 27% of those polled supported same-sex married couples when Biden voted to pass the Defense of Marriage Act. By June 2022, 71% did.

Senate passed the Defense of Marriage Act by 85 votes to 14. The House voted 342 to 65 for its adoption. President Bill ClintonIt was signed into law by a Democrat named Democrat.

“Marriage is between a man and a woman,” Biden stated this in 2006 Meet the Press Interviews in which he reversed his positions six years later are less well-received than those in which he did so. This stance was repeated in his unsuccessful 2008 Democratic presidential run and as vice presidential pick for the party on the ticket with Obama.

Republican will be participating in the vice presidential debate. Sarah PalinBiden claimed that he opposed the bill “redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage.” Moderator Gwen Ifill followed up: “Let’s try to avoid nuance, senator. Do you support gay marriage?” Biden answered “no.”

Obama and Biden were reluctant to move forward due to opposition from Hispanic voters and particularly black voters. Black Californians voted in 2008 for Obama and Biden — and also to define marriage as a man and a woman by passing the ballot initiative Proposition 8.

Biden is a Catholic Who attends mass. He told an interviewer that he attended mass a decade later than he was in high school senior. “My wife said I was the most socially conservative man she had ever known.”

His statements about his past have attracted scrutiny in the past, which ended his first campaign for office in 1987.

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Biden’s evolution follows changes in public opinion. He both denies his former position and labels people as extremists if these views are consistent with his for most of his public career, even as a senior citizen.

“I was the first major leader holding public office to call for same-sex marriage. So I don’t know what about the past of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad,” He said this in an early 2020 New Hampshire Democratic Debate.