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Biden OK with equal rights for married gay couples
Published May 06, 2012
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden says he's "absolutely comfortable"
with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as
heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an
endorsement of same-sex marriage.
But the White House and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, eager
to avoid a debate on a hot-button social issue in an election year,
insisted that Biden was not breaking ranks with Obama, who does not publicly
support gay marriage.
Biden told NBC's "Meet the Press" that marriage should be about being loyal
to someone you love, whether that marriage is between a man and a woman, two
men or two women. "I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men
marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying
one another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all
the civil liberties," Biden said in the interview broadcast Sunday.
Gay rights advocates said Biden's comments signaled unmistakable support for
gay marriage, which they said made him the highest-ranking member in the
Obama administration to take that position.
"''I'm grateful that the vice president of the United States is now
publically supporting marriage equality and I hope very soon the president
and the rest of our leaders, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, will
fall in line with the vice president," said Chad Griffin, a gay rights
supporter and a member of the Obama campaign's national finance committee.
Joe Solmonese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, said his group
was encouraged by Biden's comments and called on Obama to speak out for "
full marriage equality" for same-sex couples.
While Obama opposes gay marriage, he says his personal views on the matter
are "evolving" and has noted that polls show Americans are increasingly
supporting same-sex marriage.
Biden, a devout Catholic, has said previously that his personal views, as
well as the country's, on gay marriage are evolving.
The vice president's office said Sunday after the interview aired that Biden
's comments were not an endorsement of gay marriage, but simply a
reaffirmation of his belief that same-sex couples deserve the same rights
and protections as all Americans.
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, chimed in on Twitter,
saying Biden and Obama share the view that all married couples should have
the same legal rights.
For the Obama campaign, gay marriage has become a vexing election-year issue.
Each time the campaign promotes the president's extensive work in advancing
gay rights, including ending the military's ban on openly gay service
members, it is reminded of the one area where the president has fallen short
in the eyes of gay rights advocates.
Several Democrats are pushing for Obama to include support for gay marriage
in the party's platform, which will be finalized at the Democratic
convention this summer.
Campaign officials have played down the notion that Obama's position on gay
marriage will "evolve" before the November election. They say Obama's record
in supporting other gay rights issues stands in stark contrast to his
Republican challenger Mitt Romney, an ardent opponent of gay marriage and
other benefits for same-sex couples.
One gay rights advocate said that even before the NBC interview, Biden had
been hinting that his personal views of gay marriage may have evolved more
quickly than the president's.
The advocate described a private meeting Biden had with about 30 gay and
lesbian supporters in Los Angeles earlier this spring. When the vice
president was asked about his personal views of gay marriage, the advocate
said Biden told supporters that when his views differ from the president's,
he often has to keep his opinions to himself.
This person spoke on condition of anonymity because participants at the
meeting agreed not to discuss publicly what was said at the private
gathering.
Biden did mention the Los Angeles event in his interview Sunday. He said
that after meeting the children of the gay couple hosting the event, he told
them he wished "every American could see the look of love those kids has in
their eyes for you guys. And they wouldn't have any doubt about what this
is about."
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拜登：绝对接受“同志”婚姻
同性恋群里一向是美国民主党大选争取的重要力量，美国副总统拜登近日接受媒体采访
时又表示，他本人绝对可以接受同性婚姻。
拜登（Joe Biden）6日参加美国广播公司（NBC）节目时称，虽然他不确定奥巴马政府
是否支持同性婚姻合法化，在他看来，同性恋结婚和异性恋结婚并无太大差异，都是公
民的合法权利。
对此，拜登的发言人随后发表声明称，拜登的表述与奥巴马政府对同性恋婚姻的态度一
致。奥巴马的首席竞选顾问艾克斯罗德(David Axelrod)也表示，拜登官员同性婚姻合
法权利符合总统本人的想法。
事实上，早在2010年12月，拜登接受美国媒体采访时就表示，美国民众对同性婚姻的态
度正在不断演化，并最终会对这一问题形成全国一致的看法。就像人们对待同性恋在军
中服役的“不问不说”政策的态度一样。
就在民主党争取同性恋选民的同时，奥巴马目前最大的竞争对手、共和党总统候选人、
前马萨诸塞州州长罗姆尼（Mitt Romney）也开始借“同志”议题拉拢选民。
近日，罗姆尼的同性恋助手格雷奈尔（Richard Grenell）透露自己因性取向问题被迫
离开罗姆尼竞选阵营，罗姆尼则公开挽留格瑞尼尔，并强调自己的竞选团队用人只考量
个人能力，而非虑种族、性别和性取向差异。
此外，马里兰州州长奥马利（Martin O'Malley）于3月1日签署了同性婚姻合法法案，
使该州成为全美第8个允许同性婚姻的州。其他同性婚姻合法化的地区还包括马萨诸塞
州、新罕布什尔州、佛蒙特州、康涅尼格州、纽约州、艾奥瓦州和华盛顿（哥伦比亚特
区）。 | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 3 I like that he used the word "absolutely".
Obama needs to be be as bold as Biden. | f****0
发帖数: 835 | | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 5 个人觉得不论如何奥巴马不会在大选年突然come out高调声明支持同性婚姻，没有什么
political gain,倒是很多潜在political loss. Biden这番调子，十之八九确实是自
己兴致所至而言，而几乎不可能是在替总统放出风声．甚至他都可能暗示了自己和奥巴
马在这个议题上的可能缝隙－－＂When the vice president was asked about his
personal views of gay marriage, the advocate said Biden told supporters
that when his views differ from the president's,
he often has to keep his opinions to himself.＂． | L****l
发帖数: 594 | 6 re
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: 个人觉得不论如何奥巴马不会在大选年突然come out高调声明支持同性婚姻，没有什么
: political gain,倒是很多潜在political loss. Biden这番调子，十之八九确实是自
: 己兴致所至而言，而几乎不可能是在替总统放出风声．甚至他都可能暗示了自己和奥巴
: 马在这个议题上的可能缝隙－－＂When the vice president was asked about his
: personal views of gay marriage, the advocate said Biden told supporters
: that when his views differ from the president's,
: he often has to keep his opinions to himself.＂．
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