Joe Biden has long been a vocal champion of marriage equality, even when it wasn't so popular within his party. (via MaddowBlog)
. In fact, most national Democratic leaders were still reluctant at the time to endorse equal marriage rights, regardless of sexual orientation.
With this in mind, then-Vice President Joe Biden surprised many in May 2012 when he appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and spoke his mind. Asked about his personal perspective on same-sex marriage, the Delaware Democrat, “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.
This was not the official position of the Obama White House at the time. Indeed, the sitting presidentMaybe so. But Biden’s unplanned announcement — in hindsight, a watershed moment — helped spark a new and progressive conversation in Democratic politics. It wasn’t long before the party dramatically overhauled its position on marriage equality, and now literally every Democratic officeholder at the federal level endorses same-sex marriage without hesitation.
It’s against this backdrop that Biden, a decade after changing the conversation, will sign the Respect for Marriage Act into law this afternoon. NBC NewsThe president will emphasize bipartisan support for the legislation, passed by Congress last week, while calling for more to be done, including a renewed push for bill to prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, a White House official told NBC News.
One of the many things about the progressive victory on the Respect for Marriage Act is the speed with which it came together. Indeed, as we recently
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