Reporters
yesterday hammered White House spokesman Jay Carney over President
Barack Obama’s
position on marriage equality a day after Vice President Joe Biden
unexpectedly said he’s
comfortable with same-sex couples marrying.
Biden’s office later said
the vice president’s
official position still mirrored Obama's, leading the White House press
corps Monday
to repeatedly ask Carney to explain Obama’s position more fully. The
press corps' questions about marriage equality took up nearly half the daily briefing. Carney referred reporters to Obama’s
record on LGBT issues and his oft-repeated answer that the president was
still evolving on the
issue of marriage rights, an answer Obama himself first uttered in 2010.
