Biden was hurting his reputation for little possible gain.

 Biden makes unfounded claim: People are ‘thrown out of a restaurant for being gay’ (msn.com)   "The recent passage of The Respect for Marriage Act, celebrated by the Biden administration, has led to a flurry of public discourse and criticism. President Biden, in his speech, made an implication that caused a stir on social media.

"Bipartisan support led to the passing of The Respect for Marriage Act through the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Biden’s remark gets immediate ‘pushback’ on Twitter  "During the commemorative event, Biden remarked, “When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, this is still wrong.”

"His statement was met with immediate pushback on Twitter, as users questioned the accuracy of his comments, arguing that discrimination against gay people in restaurants is not a prevalent issue." . . .

Discrimination shifts towards Christians, unvaccinated  "Jesse Kelly presented an alternative view, suggesting that it’s not gay individuals who face discrimination but Christians and the unvaccinated." . . .

Surprisingly CNN fact-checks Joe, but still wedges in a short but scathing attack on President Trump:

"Fact check: A look at Biden's first year in false claims | CNN Politics   "When President Joe Biden passingly said in a voting rights speech last week that he had been “arrested” in the context of the civil rights movement – even suggesting this had happened more than once – it was a classic Biden false claim: an anecdote about his past for which there is no evidence, prompted by a decision to ad-lib rather than stick to a prepared text, resulting in easily avoidable questions about his honesty.

"Biden’s imaginary or embellished stories about his own history were the most memorable falsehoods of his first year in office. They were not, however, the only ones.

"The President also made multiple false claims about important policy matters, notably including three subjects that occupied much of his time: the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the economy and the Covid-19 pandemic.

"And Biden was incorrect on numerous occasions when ad-libbing about a wide assortment of facts and figures – sometimes in a way that appeared inadvertent, but other times in a way that helped him make a political point." . . .

THIS...is CNN!