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Vice President Joe Biden Recalls First Time He Saw Two Men Kissing

During a speech before a sold-out crowd in New York City celebrating Marriage Equality, Vice President Joe Biden beautifully recounted the first time he saw two men kiss one another.

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When he first saw the two men embrace on the street corner, he looked up at his father, who responded, “Joey, they love each other, it’s simple.”

He went on to credit his family as the reason why the issue of  same-sex marriage “has never been that complicated,” for him.

Biden then turned his attention to the continued work ahead for the LGBT movement:

Although the freedom to marry, and for that marriage to be recognized in all 50 states [is] the law of the land, there are still 32 states where marriage can be recognized in the morning and you can be fired in the afternoon.

This next door is going to be a hell of a lot easier to push open as long as we expose to average Americans the injustice that continues to exist.

He ended his speech by mentioning Abby Wambach, the Women's World Cup player who ran to the stadium's edge and leapt into the stands to kiss her wife after Team USA's victory. "With a flag in hand and her arm around her wife, giving her a kiss, that is really something,” Biden said. “It was just as normal as countless other times you’ve seen that happen.”

Bravo, Joe!

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