“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough knocked the White House’s celebration of the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage given that President Obama had the same position as many Republicans just three years ago.
“Let’s just please everybody be clear-eyed about this — because I saw a lot of people at the White House saying, ‘Look what we did, oooo, it’s amazing,'” Scarborough said Monday. “So the Republicans are now taking, to be honest, intellectually, Barack Obama’s position in 2012 in his last presidential campaign, until Joe Biden embarrassed him and made him come out.”
Vice President Joe Biden announced in 2012 that he was “absolutely comfortable” with gay marriage despite the fact that Obama had not yet officially changed his position. Obama had said that his stance on gay marriage was “evolving” at the time.
Obama was criticized for refusing to support gay marriage while still looking down upon states who banned same-sex marriages, the Washington Examiner reported at the time.
RELATED: White House illuminated to celebrate gay marriage case
Last week, the White House was lit up like a rainbow to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision. The high court ruled 5-4 that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause required all states to license marriages for same-sex couples.
The ruling required 13 states to reverse their ban on gay marriage. At the time the ruling came out, 37 states had already allowed gay marriage.
