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Joe Biden: “Look, I don't -- I don't know whether it would be writing discrimination into the Constitution. But it doesn't warrant…”

On the recordJune 4, 2006
Look, I don't -- I don't know whether it would be writing discrimination into the Constitution. But it doesn't warrant the Constitution.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Biden discusses the appropriateness of including marriage definitions in the Constitution, emphasizing that marriage has traditionally been a state matter.

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