Obama, who enjoyed broad support from the gay and lesbian community in the 2008 election, opposes same-sex marriage but has said gay couples should have the same rights as married straight couples. That, and a subsequent comment on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” from Education Secretary Arne Duncan that gay marriage should be legal, led White House and campaign officials to spend the day fending off questions about the president’s views. Whatever it was, Vice President Joe Biden’s endorsement on Sunday of the right of gay couples to marry revved up the activist community - and created a bit of a headache for Obama’s re-election campaign, which wanted to spend Monday talking about the economy and other issues.īiden declared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program that he was “absolutely comfortable” allowing same-gender couples to wed. Vice President Joe Biden gestures after giving a speech regarding the Obama administration's foreign policy record at New York University in New York, April 26, 2012.
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