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 Lily Allen's 'revenge dress' literally has the receipts. They wanted a 'teacup pig.' Ooops. Giant tortoises can thank NASA for their return to Galapagos island. After 12-year-old boy's crash on e-motorcycle, his dad is charged. Report an error