Could marriage equality become a dog whistle issue for the conservative base? BREAKING: Joe Biden Endorses Same-Sex Marriage. By Igor Volsky on May 6, 2012 at 9:03 am "BREAKING: Joe Biden Endorses Same-Sex Marriage" Vice President Joe Biden has endorsed same-sex marriage, becoming the highest ranking American official to back marriage for gay and lesbian people.
His comments signify a split within the Obama administration and may pave the way for President Obama — who says he supports civil unions and is still evolving on the matter — to also embrace equality. Biden made his remarks during an appearance on Meet the Press, telling host David Gregory that he is “absolutely comfortable with…men marrying men, women marrying women.” GREGORY: Have your views evolved? Watch it: Biden has backed equal rights for the LGBT community throughout his career, but this is the first time he has publicly acknowledged his support of full marriage rights.
In December of 2010, Biden predicted, “I think the country’s evolving and I think there’s an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage.” Update. North Carolina: Marriage Rights (but Not Equal Rights) on the May 8th Ballot. North Carolina polls are open for early voting in the primary election, and the rights of unmarried couples are being put to a public referendum.
I voted against North Carolina’s Amendment One, which seeks to amend the state constitution “to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in th[e] state.” A recent Pew poll shows that nationally support for gay marriage is higher than ever —47 percent of Americans in favor of it; 43 percent opposing — but North Carolinians have tended to be less progressive on the issue. When Amendment One was introduced last September, public opinion polls reported that only 31 percent of North Carolinians were in favor of legalizing gay marriage, and 61 percent favored keeping it illegal. The fate of the amendment to ban civil unions and gay marriage will be decided on May 8th, the official primary election day. Local religious leaders have come out on both sides of the debate.
Backers of North Carolina gay marriage ban: State no longer 'vulnerable' Contribute now to They filibustered equality! The GOP leadership filibustered equality last night.
Help me fight back by supporting a pro-equality majority! It was an astonishing display of political desperation by the Colorado State House Republicans last night. The GOP leadership blocked pro-equality legislation from coming to a vote, because they knew civil unions had the bipartisan support needed to become law. Democracy was thwarted last night, and it's time we fought back! In the end, the GOP Speaker of the House used gridlock to kill civil union legislation--and with it dozens of other pieces of important legislation--all on the altar of an extreme, anti-equality ideological agenda. Now it's our job to elect a new majority in November so that we can fulfill our historic mission.
Sincerely, Mark Ferrandino State Representative Minority Leader. Law. Law. The politics and economics of Austerity. Obama's Gay Marriage Equivocation. "I favor legalizing same-sex marriages," Barack Obama told a gay newspaper while seeking his first term as an Illinois state senator in 1996, "and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.
" When Obama ran for re-election in 1998, he took the National Political Awareness Test, which among other things asked, "Do you believe that the Illinois government should recognize same-sex marriages? " His response: "Undecided. " It took Obama only two years to learn the political value of reticence regarding touchy social issues—a concept that evidently still eludes Vice President Joe Biden, whose unguarded comments about gay marriage on Sunday called unwelcome attention to his boss's studied ambiguity on the subject. Yet a close look at Obama's statements over the years suggests his spokesman is telling the truth when he says Biden's position is essentially the same as the president's. "The government has to treat all citizens equally," Obama said during a 2007 presidential debate.
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