WASHINGTON, D.C. – While his boss, President Barack Obama, is all for civil marriages, Vice President Joe Biden has declared that he thinks full marriage between people of the samesex is on the horizon, a lot sooner than most people think.

“I think the country’s evolving,” Biden said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “and I think there’s an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage. That is my view. But this is the president’s policy, but it is evolving. I think the country’s evolving.”

Biden was asked the question while he was on the show to discuss the law that repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which now allows gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.

“I think the same thing is happening across the country with regard to the issue of marriage,” Biden said.

A Pew survey released in October, based on two polls taken over several months, found that 48 percent opposed allowing gays and lesbians to legally marry, while 42 percent were in favor. Still, a Pew analysis noted, “for the first time in 15 years, fewer than half oppose same-sex marriage.” About 6,500 people were surveyed. The margin of error is plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.

Pew also found “the shift in opinion on same-sex marriage has been broad-based, occurring across many demographic, political and religious groups.”

Biden’s attitude has changed from the campaign trail several years ago when he said he was for civil unions but said that each religion should be able to decide if they are going to allow same-sex marriages in their congregations.