Thread by @VABVOX

So this story is still bugging me.
It is 1963 in Wilmington, DE and it is broad daylight in the black side of town where Biden was a lifeguard and he saw two, one presumes black, men kissing and his Catholic dad says this?
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https://twitter.com/VABVOX/status/1182448577244815360

Homophobia was rife in my Catholic school and it was much later than Biden's story and not Delaware.
In 1987 I got punched in the face in my neighborhood in Philadelphia as did my then partner when we kissed each other and it was night and we were walking home from the El.
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Biden told this story as an explanation for what he claims was his life-long approval of and support for gay people. But that is a really revisionist version since Biden voted for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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So here is the voting for #DOMA.
Biden voted for it. John Kerry, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Ron Wyden, Russ Feingold and Carole Mosley Braun were among the Democratic senators who voted against DOMA. So Biden's version of why he was forced to vote for DOMA is false.
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So @KamalaHarris has fistfuls of receipts including video of her performing marriages 15 years ago, and Biden claims receipts and they just aren't there. She has a whole policy package for LGBTQ. Biden has none.
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In the House, some notable no votes for DOMA were @SpeakerPelosi @JerryNadler @repjohnlewis and @BernieSanders.
So Biden could have voted against DOMA. Claiming he voted for DOMA so he could fight against it doesn't actually make sense.
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