Vice President Joe Biden Addresses LGBT Convention, Uses Profanity, Invokes Selma in Push for More Homosexual Rights

By Tierney Sneed. Addressing a convention of LGBT activists in Washington on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden compared the 1965 demonstrations in Selma for African-American voting rights – the 50th anniversary of which is being commemorated this week – to the ongoing battle for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

“The same basic human rights were at stake when John [Lewis, an African-American civil rights leader who is now a U.S. congressman] led that march over that bridge,” Biden said, referring to the Edmund Pettus Bridge that became the site of a standoff during the Alabama demonstrations. “[Lewis] said last month, you cannot talk about breaking down the barriers between the races without having equality for everybody, including based on gender and sex orientation.”

Biden was the marquee speaker at the Human Rights Campaign’s spring convention in Washington, which gathers LGBT activists from across the country for training and strategy sessions. He went on to compare the Selma demonstrations to the protests prompted by a police raid a few years later at the Stonewall Inn, a popular bar among gay people at the time.

“Although the events of Selma and Stonewall were separate movements, they were in fact the same; they’re in fact the same basic movement,” Biden said. (Read more from “Vice President Joe Biden Addresses LGBT Convention” HERE)

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Joe Biden Blasts Ben Carson’s Comments On Homosexuals

By Veronica Stracqualursi. Speaking at a gathering of LGBT rights activists today, Vice President Joe Biden took a swipe at potential Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson for his recent remark that being gay is a choice.

Biden, who has been a longtime advocate for gay rights, called Carson’s comment a “ridiculous assertion.”

“I mean Jesus God. I mean it’s kind of hard to fathom,” Biden told an audience at the Human Rights Campaign spring equality convention in Washington, D.C.

Biden’s comments on Carson got laughs and cheers from the packed room. (Read more from this story HERE)

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