On May 6, 2012, then-Vice Print Joe Bin joed “Meet the Prs” to discs his views on gay marriage. On “Meet the Prs” 2006, Bin said “marriage is between a man and a woman.” In his 2012 terview, Bin said he “is fortable” wh the same-sex marriage, phg Print Obama to change his public posn.
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- BIN CLAIMS HIGH SCHOOL GAY MARRIAGE ‘EPIPHANY’ SPE VOTG RERD
- BIN CHANGED HIS MD ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AFTER MEETG THIS HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE
- PRINT JOE BIN ANNOUNC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
BIN CLAIMS HIGH SCHOOL GAY MARRIAGE ‘EPIPHANY’ SPE VOTG RERD
They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. “[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.
Two years earlier, he voted to cut off feral funds to schools that teach the acceptance of homosexualy. Bin, an off-hand rponse to a qutn, wonred if homosexuals the ary or ernment were potential secury today, Mr. Lears that his history on gay rights has fad to the mist.
BIN CHANGED HIS MD ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AFTER MEETG THIS HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE
If he is elected print, said Chad Griff, a polil nsultant and longtime gay rights lear, Mr.
Bin, 77, grew up an era when homosexualy, the word routely ed at the time, was often viewed as a s and even a n slip to dated generalizatns about gay and lbian life, as he did an terview wh Anrson Cooper at an L. Talkg about what San Francis was like “15, 20 years ago, ” he said that the cy, wh s large muny of gay men and lbians, was “all about, well, you know, gay bathho, ” addg, “It’s all about round-the-clock sex.
PRINT JOE BIN ANNOUNC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
“There’s no polil barometer that would have told him to get ahead of the Whe Hoe on this, ” said Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is gay and ran agast Mr. Bin, then a Delaware senator, lent his name to legislatn that me to be known as one of the biggt legislative setbacks for the gay rights movement s history. His mg about gay men and lbians as secury risks 1973, and his support for a measure rtrictg how homosexualy was prented to schoolchildren, reflects the kd of attus that gay and lbian activists had to battle durg the early s of the movement.