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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: May 27, 2022, 01:40:15 PM »
You guys have been defending him and his choices for the last 50 pages, and seem to say that he is better than Trump. You certainly should defend Biden's lifetime of opposing gays as well.
Here is a link on Biden's prolific anti-gay past. Source links to the bullets are in the page:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/campaign-press-release-nothing-be-proud-the-biden-lgbt-record
Here is a link on Biden's prolific anti-gay past. Source links to the bullets are in the page:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/campaign-press-release-nothing-be-proud-the-biden-lgbt-record
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- In 1973, Biden suggested that gay federal employees were "security risks"
https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The_Morning_News_Tue__Sep_25__1973_.pdf
- In 1993, Biden voted to block the immigration of HIV+ individuals into the United States
- In 1993, Biden voted for the bill that created "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
- In 1994, Biden voted to cut off federal funding for schools that taught "acceptance of homosexuality as a lifestyle"
For decades, Biden opposed same-sex marriage
- In 1996, Biden voted for the Defense Of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman
- In the 2000s, Biden claimed that same-sex marriage was a "state" issue and repeatedly said that marriage was "between a man and a woman"
Biden refused to characterize a Constitutional marriage amendment as "writing discrimination into the Constitution"
Biden suggested he was opposed to the "timing" of the marriage amendment, not its substance
- In 2008, both before and after he became Obama's Vice-Presidential nominee, Biden said he opposed same-sex marriage
Biden is falsely claiming he was the first major leader to support same-sex marriage
- 12 years before Biden did, Vice President Dick Cheney opposed federal restrictions on same-sex marriage
Biden wasn't even the first Obama Cabinet member to support same-sex marriage
- In 2012, after Biden accidentally supported same-sex marriage, his staff and White House aides attempted to clean up and walk back Biden's remarks, saying he had not actually endorsed it