Posted on 12/24/2010 8:05:23 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Biden sees 'inevitability' for gay marriage By Russell Berman - 12/24/10 10:02 AM ET
Vice President Joseph Biden said in a television interview Friday that “there’s an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage.”
The vice president, who backs civil unions but not same-sex marriage, weighed in on the issue two days after President Obama acknowledged his position was “evolving.”
“I think the country's evolving,” Biden said in the interview with ABC News. His comments were not the first time he has suggested the country would eventually accept and support gay marriage. Asked in a 2007 appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if gay marriage was inevitable, Biden replied that “it probably is.”
In the wide-ranging Christmas Eve interview on ABC, Biden also stood by his previous assertion that U.S. troops would leave Afghanistan by 2014 “come hell or high water.”
The White House had clarified that remark, but Biden said Friday he was “absolutely confident” that the U.S. combat mission would be complete in three years, comparing the process of gradually withdrawing troops from Afghanistan to the war in Iraq, where the military declared an end to combat operations earlier this year.
The vice president did say, however, that the U.S. might retain open bases in Bagram and Kandahar beyond 2014 as part of a “train-and-assist” mission.
“I think there's equally a prospect that they'll remain open as closed,” Biden said. “But we're not going to be there with 100-- my generic point was there're not going to be 140,000 ISAF forces, International Security Forces, in Afghanistan by the year 2014.”
On taxes, Biden reiterated the Obama administration’s call to end the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy after 2012, when they will expire after the extension the president negotiated in his compromise with Republicans. Yet Biden conceded that “nothing’s a guarantee.”
Biden also revealed the top of his Christmas gift list: He asked for a golf club - a two-wood, to be exact.
Joe coming out of the closet?
So, what Biden is telling us is that he and his friend Zero can make any laws they want, and we can pound sand. They have votes to hustle and too bad for the average American, because they know best.
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If it does become law, we need to start movements to take away all tax benefits for marriage and treat everybody as a individual and make marriage only a religous ceremonial act... Couch it in deficit reduction and sowe can’t afford these giveaway to marriage people..
When he names the date I'll send a card but he better not expect a gift.
Biden may, but , God doesn’t. It may not be popular to opine this, but, I would be concerned more about what pleases God than Biden or obama either. But then again, obama is not my missiah, he is not even my President.
It is not about the benefits- they want to force churches to do gay marriage ceremonies. The perverts and their communist allies intend to make American Christians accept their evil.
And another so-called Catholic checks-in.
Memo to Joe:
Once we change the legal definition of marriage, the door is opened to polygamy.
That will codify, into law, a MATH PROBLEM that results in the sexual abuse of young girls. Just like we see in 3rd world Muslim countries. And the abandonment, on the side of the road, of adolescent males.
I’m here in S. Utah, so I know of what I speak.
“...tax benefits for marriage...”
I pay a penalty for being married.
I hope these queers enjoy their queerdom while on earth, the Lake of Fire awaits them.
Is it likewise “inevitable” that Biden’s motoracde will continue to have accidents? /s =.=
Joe, at the rate you guys are going Sodom & Gomorrah and it’s ultimate fate are “inevitable”.
Can anyone tell me for certain whether “marriage” is a religious institution or not? Because quite frankly, everything that a marriage gives to a heterosexual couple, a gay couple can get too by legal process. For instance, name changes, naming a heir, health beneficiaries and so on...
The first time gay military servicemen start doing as portrayed in your photo, all hell will break loose. =.=
And simultaneously, silence any opposition. They want our sons and daughters taught sex education by a teacher wearing a moustache and a dress. That is were the militant gays want to go- toward recruitment.
That is true the Problem is they are afraid to put something like that on the Ballot Because it would Lose ,Just Like we all support abortion but you will never have a Chance to vote on that also ,you will be just told that you love it by your Betters the Elite Know it alls that have done such a Great job Of Stewardship of our Country in all Matters Great and Small.
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There is a national consensus on gay marriage. Every time the issue is put to a vote, an overwhelming majority votes to ban it. The liberals just refuse to accept that.