A Washington Post fact-check found that President Biden has told multiple versions of the infamous gay marriage “epiphany” story he mentioned during an interview with Kal Penn on “The Daily Show.”
The Post’s Glenn Kessler wrote that there were three reasons to “be skeptical of this story as Biden retells it,” the first being that gay men were “largely closeted at the time.”
The fact-check also notes that Biden told the New York Times a version of the story in which he was the father.
Biden told the outlet about how one of his children “looked up at him quizzically after seeing two men headed off to work kiss each other goodbye on a busy street corner” and added that he said, ‘They love each other, honey,’ and that was it.”
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“So it was never anything that was a struggle in my mind,” he continued.
President Biden shared a story about having an “epiphany” on same-sex marriage during an…
