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Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday said that's he's "absolutely comfortable" with married same-sex couples being granted the same rights as heterosexual pairs.
"I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties," he told NBC's David Gregory on "Meet the Press." "And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that."
President Barack Obama has said his position on same sex marriage is "evolving," and he supported civil unions but opposed marriage for gay couples during the 2008 campaign. Biden noted Sunday that the "president sets the policy" and that he did not know if the administration would formally come out in favor of same-sex marriage in the president's second term should he be re-elected.
But the vice president said that attitudes about gay marriage in America are changing in favor of greater tolerance for loving homosexual partners.
On Meet the Press today, the vice president discussed the administration's position in the same-sex marriage debate.
"The good news is that as more and more Americans become to understand what this is all about is a simple proposition," he said. "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 is what -- what all marriages, at their root, are about."
An aide pointed to the administration's efforts to challenge the Defense of Marriage Act and said that the vice president's comments only reiterated Obama's past support for "committed and loving same-sex couples."
"The vice president was saying what the president has said previously -- that committed and loving same-sex couples deserve the same rights and protections enjoyed by all Americans, and that we oppose any effort to roll back those rights," the aide said. "That's why we stopped defending the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges and support legislation to repeal it. Beyond that, the vice president was expressing that he too is evolving on the issue, after meeting so many committed couples and families in this country."
Section 3 is the section defines marriage for federal purposes as between one man and one woman.
Biden, who twice ran for president before accepting the job of Obama's second-in-command, pushed back on persistent speculation that he could be replaced on the 2012 ticket by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "There's no way out. I mean, they've already printed Obama-Biden!" he said.
And he quipped Sunday that he and one-time rival Clinton may run on a joint ticket in 2016.
"I think we may run as a team," he said, quickly noting that he was joking.
"I don't know whether I'm gonna run," he added. "And Hillary doesn't know whether she's gonna run."
Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights, said it was encouraged by Biden's comments. Biden "rightly articulated that loving and committed gay and lesbian couples should be treated equally," President Joe Solmonese said in a statement. "Now is the time for President Obama to speak out for full marriage equality for same-sex couples."
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If Barney Fife were here, he`d say..."All you Queers git back in yer cells(closets) and TICK-A- LOCK"! Suck in those guts!
now, this IS joe biden...
and joe biden also said if we didnt pass obamas new stimulus americans would "get raped by a 200 lb man"
(...when asked by a reporter about his "rape" comment...biden stood by what he said)
...the video of biden saying this is on you tube if you are interested
I personally think that gays ought to be forced to live out their lives in petting zoos. That way, "conservative" "anti-gay" legislators can get low-level jollies, which just might preclude tawdry scenes in airport lavatories.
o.k When two dudes produce a child frrom shooting each other in the rear end. Than I will support gay ( civil) unions
What an ignorant, closed minded thing to say. Gays have children ALL the time...whether it be two women or two men...Perhaps if you were in any diversity at all, you would see such families. A family is a loving, supportive home...whether it be two women, two men or one man and one woman. AS long as the home is healthy (and let's face it, many have suffered with an abusive father/"straight" household), that is a start to a good family. Why cannot people "get" this?????....this is SO basic.
JOHN: Can you really be as much of an imbecile as your post would lead us to believe???
You do know that there are plenty of repressed Gay Republicans right??? Including a number who are Congress people. Have you forgotten Sen Larry Craig and his little dance in the men's room???
Or perhaps Dick Cheney's daughter??? The Dickster is an advocate for Gay Marriage I kid you not.
With respect, why on earth is is up to YOU to support who gets to sign a legally-binding marriage contract.
I wouldn't want that responsibility. Seems to me that's up to the couple that wants to MAKE that commitment, not you or me.
Any enlightened, intelligent, accepting person should be "totally" ok with gay marriage. I mean, this is a human rights issue....People are people. Who cares what two consentual adults do. The right-wing conservatives are nothing but scared, out-of-touch, ignorant people...Hey conservatives, gays are not going to go away. IN fact, we are just going to become more visible...because the oppression of gays HAS to stop. We are everywhere, just like straights. And beautifully diverse, just like straights. GET USED TO IT.
but you fail to mention the black church and their stance on homosexuality.
...unless you think all black christians are republican....then your comment is flawed h33.....i will give you a chance to clarify.
yea if it get me votes !!! ......................... what a fag.................................... Biden sux my black salty ballzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz you looser
I'm amazed how upset people get over homosexuals looking for tax deductions and probate protection. Homosexuals have been getting "married" for a few decades now without actual contracts.
Yea me too I need break I like to get laid with at-least a grin mmuuuuhhahahahhahahahaha
I likes Obama better at least he sort ah honest
What would Christian life be like without somebody to hate?
It would be like Jesus.
Too many are trying to do what Jesus can do and not what he told them to do.
so now black christians are homophobic because they reject homosexuality ?
I wouldst know I am not a christian I just hate Humans such a waste of real good real estate
KECK: Actually, I do think many Blacks are Homophobic, both religious and otherwise. Sad but true.
...its going to be a tough election for obama...he needs every vote he can get, and he can do that angering black church.
...and so, he sends biden out to say what he wont.
Republitards want less government and cry marxism and socialism and communism about publicly funded health care. But hey, let's make sure the government doesn't allow gay people to get married.
I'm sorry. You want more government? Less government? Oh, maybe it is just government on your own terms and everyone else has to go along with you. THAT IS COMMUNISM YOU MORONS!!
uh...president obama is campaigning against gay marriage.
so, buy your comment...you are saying obama is a 'communist' ?
KECK: He's campainging against Gay marriage? I must have missed that speach.
google it then oz
No its wrong way dude get a frip and get a woman if you can handle real on like you mother ] MUUUHAHAHAHHA
I can see why so many are confused faggatism and communism are very fatalistic and for Normal folk they just cant tell
ah reason he is comfortable with gay unions is because his feeling for obama....
Okay gets fan to get the flames firing up........................
you start with god and work you way down right
Now I am a little confused? Re-election jitters? Mind change or finally makes a desission to back something? Back being the key word. Or did I just mis-understand him? Not to hard (no pun) with this adminstration. Did "let's go joe" say he's comfortable cumming out of the closet with the gays? Homo's, queers, butt buddies, shoot packers...is this what is ment by...polls? Stand by your man crap.
So, it's ok to rope a dope, or soap a dope...
way to go joe at slipping in a gay vote push! Kind-of caugh America from behind?
Vote, re-elect, gay, (come) poles? Back door loop-hole? burr-rock me baby?
biden and obama...please in November, don't slam the back door as you leave...
I c u have a fan tooo PAL muhahahahaha
thank god I have blue blood you all would be in trouble if this creature <me> had red blood
In the future this issue will be viewed as we view segregation nowadays. Future generations will be in awe of the bigotry of people who are against gay marriage just as people of today look at the racism of the past.
jack on final word SHUT UP
I better go have better thing to do yall take care and bee real nice and squeeeeeel like A pig on command
Who cares what Odumbo Jr. says, thinks, does, feels, cares about, ............
If anyone could possibly vote for this POS duo again, then that is stupid squared. Geometrically stupid!
JERRY: We can't all be expected to possess an intellect as towering as yours. You were granted a special gift from god. You and only you know the truth.
Yea, perhaps we'll get another Dubya in the White House. That would sure cure all our problems, don't you think??? LOL
Many, you Reich Wingers sure are funny, I'll tell you. Bush enters office with a balanced budget and a budget surplus and leaves office 8 years later (6 with a GOP Congress) and we're in debt up to our necks and you blame it on Obama. Now that sure is funny, I'll tell you.
Get a job.
Oh deary, Jerry is really pissed off now. Stand back everyone, Jerry just might go postal any moment now.
jwack you must be a fag in the closet
Xent you must not have passed third grade.
Biden, Marriage is sacred. God ordained marriage to be between a man and a woman. What a sad VP and a sad world.
1. Not everyone in this country believes in the Christian God.
2. America was founded as a Constitutional Republic, not a theocracy.
BROOKS: In case you misunderstood this, no one is forcing you to have a Gay marriage. You do understand that, right?
For a party that claims to detest "Big Government" you folks sure to like legislating morality for everyone else.
And yet my partner of many years and I were married in a mainstream Jewish temple by a very mainstream Jewish rabbi, before our families, friends, congregants and God. We are very married. ;-)
What do I wish for you? Only that God bless you as He has blessed us. Peace.
If Both of you aren't gay what are you so scared of? God didn't didn't ordiane marriage...the Easter Bunny did !
I had a thought I cant wait for you Humans to Enlighten you Brethren and irradiate this globe so that we can be more comfortable that's all folks
have a great evening
Go suck a d!ck Biden.
JERRY: What's this? You want Joe Biden to suck your dick??? The wifey just aiin't doing for you, eh buddy??? LOL
Jerry, you sound like kind of an angry guy. You a heavy drinker I suspect??? Just swilling down that cheap booze.
Ozzie... You Just Can't Fix Stupid. Just ask your mom & dad. And Obama's betting on it. You're his base.
Oh my god Jerry That is disgusting! at least take him to dinner first!
But Ozzie's wife is doing it for me. Without dinner.