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Posted: 8/18/2012 11:08:20 AM EST
FILE - In this photo provided by Sen. Joe Biden's office, then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., holds his daughter Ashley. In May, after Joe Biden tripped up his boss by voicing support for same-sex marriage while the president remained on the fence, there was speculation about whether the remarks were spontaneous or deliberate. But to those who know Biden, there was no doubt. He was just speaking his mind. (AP Photo/Sen. Biden's office)
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Posted: 8/18/2012 11:08:20 AM EST
FILE - In this April 9, 1993, file photo then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. stands in front of a Danish armored personnel carrier at the UN-controlled Sarajevo Airport, making a statement about his trip to the besieged Bosnian capital. In May, after Joe Biden tripped up his boss by voicing support for same-sex marriage while the president remained on the fence, there was speculation about whether the remarks were spontaneous or deliberate. But to those who know Biden, there was no doubt. He was just speaking his mind. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, File)
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Posted: 8/18/2012 11:08:20 AM EST
FILE - In this July 19, 2012 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden campaigns at the Plumbers & Pipefitters Local Union 189 in Columbus, Ohio. In May, after Joe Biden tripped up his boss by voicing support for same-sex marriage while the president remained on the fence, there was speculation about whether the remarks were spontaneous or deliberate. But to those who know Biden, there was no doubt. He was just speaking his mind. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
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Posted: 8/18/2012 11:08:20 AM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, on the importance of the agreement passed by Congress to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance. In May, after Joe Biden tripped up his boss by voicing support for same-sex marriage while the president remained on the fence, there was speculation about whether the remarks were spontaneous or deliberate. But to those who know Biden, there was no doubt. He was just speaking his mind. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Posted: 8/18/2012 11:08:20 AM EST
FILE - In this July 12, 2012, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden addresses the NAACP annual convention in Houston. In May after Biden tripped up his boss by voicing support for same-sex marriage while the president remained on the fence, there was speculation about whether the remarks were spontaneous or deliberate. But to those who know Biden, there was no doubt. He was just speaking his mind. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
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Posted: 8/17/2012 4:13:19 AM EST
ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, AUG. 19 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this April 9, 1993, file photo then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. stands in front of a Danish armored personnel carrier at the UN-controlled Sarajevo Airport, making a statement about his trip to the besieged Bosnian capital. In May, after Joe Biden tripped up his boss by voicing support for same-sex marriage while the president remained on the fence, there was speculation about whether the remarks were spontaneous or deliberate. But to those who know Biden, there was no doubt. He was just speaking his mind. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, File)
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Posted: 8/3/2012 8:57:31 PM EST
Eduardo Cisneros (L) and Luke Montgomery kiss on national "kiss-in" day at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Hollywood, California, August 3, 2012. Gay rights activists and backers of same-sex marriage plan to hold a nationwide "kiss-in" at Chick-fil-A restaurants on Friday to protest the fast-food chain president's opposition to homosexual unions. Same Sex Kiss Day is a reaction to comments last month from Dan Cathy, who said he supported "the biblical definition of the family unit" and that backers of gay marriage were "arrogant." REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn \
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Posted: 8/3/2012 8:57:31 PM EST
Katie Sawatske (L) and Corri Riczu kiss on national "kiss-in" day at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Hollywood, California, August 3, 2012. Gay rights activists and backers of same-sex marriage plan to hold a nationwide "kiss-in" at Chick-fil-A restaurants on Friday to protest the fast-food chain president's opposition to homosexual unions. Same Sex Kiss Day is a reaction to comments last month from Dan Cathy, who said he supported "the biblical definition of the family unit" and that backers of gay marriage were "arrogant." REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
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Posted: 8/3/2012 11:28:35 AM EST
Gays, lesbians, transvestites and their supporters dance as they participate in a gay rally in Pokhara 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Hundreds of gay, lesbian and transgender people marched in a Nepal town to demand recognition as a third gender in citizen certificates, to allow same-sex marriage and support criminalizing discrimination based on sexual preference. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Posted: 8/3/2012 11:28:35 AM EST
Gays, lesbians, transvestites and their supporters dance as they participate in a gay rally in Pokhara 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Hundreds of gay, lesbian and transgender people marched in a Nepal town to demand recognition as a third gender in citizen certificates, to allow same-sex marriage and support criminalizing discrimination based on sexual preference. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Posted: 8/3/2012 11:28:35 AM EST
A participant rejoices during a gay rally in Pokhara 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Hundreds of gay, lesbian, transgender people marched in a Nepal town to demand recognition as a third gender in citizen certificates, to allow same-sex marriage and support criminalizing discrimination based on sexual preference. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Posted: 7/30/2012 4:32:33 PM EST
Partners Bill Wilson (R) and Fernando Orlandi walk inside San Francisco City Hall as they prepare to get married on the first full day of legal same-sex marriage in California June 17, 2008. REUTERS/Erin Siegal
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Posted: 7/30/2012 4:32:33 PM EST
Partners Bill Wilson (R) and Fernando Orlandi walk inside San Francisco City Hall as they prepare to get married on the first full day of legal same-sex marriage in California June 17, 2008. REUTERS/Erin Siegal
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Posted: 7/27/2012 4:18:35 PM EST
FILE - In a Monday, May 7, 2012 file photo, Amazon founder, president and CEO Jeff Bezos and wife Mackenzie Bezos arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, in New York. Bezos and his wife MacKenzie announced a gift Friday, July 27, 2012 of $2.5 million to the campaign to defend Washington's same-sex marriage law. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
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Posted: 6/22/2012 9:13:34 AM EST
Graphic shows AP-GfK poll results on same-sex marriage and politics
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Posted: 6/7/2012 10:03:29 AM EST
Judy Lumm, left, and her partner Stacie Leanos and Scott Smriga, right, look on from the back at a news conference about petitions being filed for Referendum 74 to stop Washington's gay marriage law Wednesday, June 6, 2012, in Olympia, Wash. The three support gay marriage and oppose the referendum. Same-sex marriage was blocked from taking effect as opponents filed more than 200,000 signatures seeking a public vote on the issue in November. Preserve Marriage Washington submitted the signatures just a day before the state was to begin allowing same-sex marriages. State officials will review the filings over the next week to determine whether the proposed referendum will qualify for a public vote, though the numbers suggest the measure will make the ballot easily. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Posted: 6/2/2012 5:00:45 AM EST
This undated photo provided June 1, 2012, by Target Corp. shows one of the T-shirts target is selling to raise money for a group working to defeat a gay marriage ban in Minnesota. The Minneapolis-based retailer is taking heat from same-sex marriage opponents in its home state, where voters will decide this November whether to put a gay marriage ban into the state constitution. (AP Photo/Target Corp., Paul Weber)
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Posted: 5/31/2012 7:16:43 PM EST
Phil Fung (R) holds hands with Shawn Klein, his life-partner of 18 years, during their marriage ceremony on the 61st floor of the Empire State Building in New York, in this February, 14, 2012 file photo. A federal appeals court on May 31, 2012 found a law that denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples unconstitutional, in a case with implications for gay marriages across the U.S. REUTERS/Andrew Burton/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS)
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Posted: 5/30/2012 6:40:47 PM EST
In this June 1, 2011 file photo, Janean Watkins, left, and Lakeesha Harris embrace after being the first in line to obtain a civil union license from the Cook County Office of Vital Records in Chicago. They are among more than two dozen same-sex couples filing lawsuits Wednesday, May 30, 2012, challenging the constitutionality of Illinois? marriage laws. Advocates for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and Lambda Legal are each filing a lawsuit on behalf of the couples. Their goal is to make same-sex marriage legal. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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Posted: 5/29/2012 12:05:47 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2012, file photo, Ali Vanderzanden, political director for Equality Maine, hugs a friend before a news conference at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Dozens of boxes in the background contains more than 105,000 signatures collected by supporters of gay marriage to force a second referendum on the issue. Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it. It's possible the streak could end in November 2012, when Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington state are likely to have closely contested gay marriage measures on their ballots. For now, however, there remains a gap between the national polling results and the way states have voted. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
