Claim:

In 2008, when asked about his support for “gay marriage,” then-vice-presidential-candidate Joe Biden said: “No. Barack Obama, nor I, support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage. We do not support that.”

In late June 2024, as Pride month drew to a close and the 2024 presidential campaign heated up in the U.S., several social media posts went viral claiming that when asked in 2008 if he supported “gay marriage,” then-vice-presidential-candidate Joe Biden said he and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama did not support “redefining, from a civil side, what constitutes marriage.”

The quote is authentic, meaning that the footage was not digitally or otherwise altered, and was correctly attributed to Biden.

The clip shared was from the 2008 vice presidential debate between Biden, a Democrat, and then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a Republican. …

In June 2024, Biden wrote on X: “We recommit to realizing the promise of America for all, to celebrating LGBTQI+ people …”