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 CNN boss asks workers not to 'jump to conclusions' about deal. Trump laid a 'trap' for Democrats, and GOP aims to pounce. Mr. Clean is punching in for the last time. Christina Applegate pulls back the curtain on her real life. Report an error