President Biden was torched on Twitter Tuesday for trying to rewrite history about how he came to an 'epiphany' on gay marriage in high school, despite his longtime stance in the Senate opposing legislation that expanded rights for the LGBTQ community.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s same-sex or heterosexual couple. They should be able to be married. What is the problem?” he said.
He said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in 2006, “Marriage is between a man and woman; what’s the game going on here?” “So he’s basically admitting he lied about a moral conviction for the next five decades? How heroic. Also, the idea that he was thinking about gay marriage in 1960-61 is really just silly,” Mr. Goldberg tweeted.“It will never not be weird that Biden simply lies about stuff like this constantly. Biden voted for [the Defense of Marriage Act] in 1996 and was openly saying marriage should be between a man and a woman over a decade later,” he wrote on Twitter.
Mr. Biden also supported 2003’s Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between men and women for federal purposes and let states refuse to recognize same-sex unions in other states.During the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Biden reiterated his opposition to gay marriage. When asked during the October 2008 vice presidential debate, Mr. Biden was asked by moderator Gwen Ifill if he supported gay marriage and he simply responded, “No.
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