From television acting to... officiating marriages? That seems to be the case for our Vice President Joe Biden, who married two gay White House officials at his Washington D.C. home, the Naval Observatory, on Monday (and then tweeted about it: take a look).
Having never officiated a wedding before, Biden obtained a special temporary certification from the District of Columbia.
The wedding, between director of Oval Office operations Brian Mosteller and First Lady Michelle Obama trip coordinator Joe Mashie, took place a little more than a year after the Supreme Court's historic gay marriage ruling.
The grooms asked the VP to officiate. A fitting choice, many argue, following Biden's own role in the government's dealings with same-sex marriage. Back in 2012, during an interview on Meet the Press, the VP told host David Gregory that he is “absolutely comfortable with…men marrying men, women marrying women." The "off-the-cuff" remark catalyzed President Barack Obama's eventual public endorsement of the cause.
Clearly not a stranger to LGBT issues, later that year Biden also called transgender discrimination "the civil rights issue of our time."
It seems like the end of his term isn't stopping Biden from taking over headlines (remember to catch his cameo on Law and Order: SVU in September).