Vice President Joe Biden will help
Freedom to Marry celebrate the recent Supreme Court ruling striking
down gay marriage bans in all 50 states during an event Thursday on
Wall Street.
The event will “celebrate success in
winning marriage nationwide and the triumph it represents for
America,” the group said.
Biden announced his support for
marriage equality during a 2012 appearance on NBC's Meet the
Press. Within days, President Barack Obama announced that he had
“evolved” on the issue and now supports allowing gay couples to
marry.
Last year, Biden said that his comments
were not planned.
“I want you to know, to set the
record straight, my comments on Meet the Press were not
planned,” Biden told a NetRoots Nation audience. “I get asked a
direct question, I give a direct answer. I come out of the civil
rights movement, and there's no way in God's green Earth that I can
sit there and be asked a question about the civil rights issue of our
day and remain silent. It would have made a lie of who I am.”
This will be one of the few appearances
Biden has made since his son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in
May.