President Biden’s recent claim that gay people “can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant” in the afternoon was rated by the fact-checking site PolitiFact as “mostly true” on Friday.
During the White House “Pride Month 2023” event on June 10, Biden gave a speech in support of the LGBTQ community. One particular point that drew backlash was his claim that restaurants kick gay people out on the basis of their sexual orientation.
“When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still very wrong in America,” Biden said.
President Joe Biden speaks at the Pride Month 2023 event held on the White House lawn, June 10, 2023. (White House)
While the claim was heavily scrutinized and criticized when he made it in December, PolitiFact deemed it as “mostly true” based on the fact that 22 states do not have anti-discrimination laws based on orientation.