Politics | Joe Biden Joe Biden: Gay Marriage 'Inevitable' Country, like Obama, 'evolving' on the issue By Nick McMaster Posted Dec 24, 2010 3:18 PM CST Copied In this Nov. 19, 2010 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden gestures while speaking at the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) Joe Biden acknowledged today that gay marriage is probably going to be a fact of life in the United States—it's just a matter of when. Two days after President Obama used similarly gradual language to describe his position on the issue, Biden said “there’s an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage.” Biden has made the prediction before: He told Meet the Press in 2007 that gay marriage was "probably" inevitable. Read These Next Two state troopers were shot in Pennsylvania JD Vance in hot water over birthday boating trip. Kelly Clarkson's ex died a day after she disclosed he was ill. Trump is demanding a 'new' census. Report an error