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Big Tent News: Barney Frank On Westboro Baptist Church, Prostitution And 'Bigot' Antonin Scalia
Barney Frank On Westboro Baptist Church, Prostitution And 'Bigot' Antonin ScaliaIn one of his last interviews before leaving Congress, Rep. Barney Frank gave a preview of the kind of no-holds-barred pundit he will be as he moves on to write books and become a TV commentator. The retiring 16-term openly gay Massachusetts Democrat called for the legalization of prostitution, cheered Washington State and Colorado for legalizing marijuana, labeled Justice Antonin Scalia an unreconstructed bigot, criticized those who took Prop 8 to the Supreme Court, defended the free speech of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, and heralded the arrival of Congresss first gaysian -- the election of Mark Takano, an openly gay Asian-American from California to the House
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Big Tent News: Barney Frank On Westboro Baptist Church, Prostitution And 'Bigot' Antonin Scalia (Original Post)
fightthegoodfightnow
Dec 2012
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fightthegoodfightnow
(7,042 posts)1. On Scalia in that same Interview
On Justice Scalia and his latest anti-gay outburst, Frank is actually happy to see Scalia being honest.
I was glad that he made clear whats been obvious, that hes just a flat out bigot, Frank said. Id previously said he was a homophobe. And Fox and the rightwing said, Oh just because hes not for same-sex marriage? And I said, No, let me be very clear. Thats not it. This is a man who has said you should go to prison for having sex. It was an extraordinarily abusive sentiment and it was dead wrong. And, by the way, for a guy who is supposed to be so smart -- quite stupid.This young man said to him, Why do you compare sodomy to murder? And he said, Well because I have a right to say if I think something is immoral. Well the question wasnt about his right. The question was, By what morality is expressing your love for someone in a physical way equivalent to killing that person? It makes it clear that the man is an unreconstructed bigot, and given that you have a bigot on the Supreme Court like that, it is useful to know.
I was glad that he made clear whats been obvious, that hes just a flat out bigot, Frank said. Id previously said he was a homophobe. And Fox and the rightwing said, Oh just because hes not for same-sex marriage? And I said, No, let me be very clear. Thats not it. This is a man who has said you should go to prison for having sex. It was an extraordinarily abusive sentiment and it was dead wrong. And, by the way, for a guy who is supposed to be so smart -- quite stupid.This young man said to him, Why do you compare sodomy to murder? And he said, Well because I have a right to say if I think something is immoral. Well the question wasnt about his right. The question was, By what morality is expressing your love for someone in a physical way equivalent to killing that person? It makes it clear that the man is an unreconstructed bigot, and given that you have a bigot on the Supreme Court like that, it is useful to know.
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libodem
(19,288 posts)4. Thank you
I love his attitude!!!