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fightthegoodfightnow

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Thu Dec 20, 2012, 05:58 PM Dec 2012

Big Tent News: Barney Frank On Westboro Baptist Church, Prostitution And 'Bigot' Antonin Scalia

Barney Frank On Westboro Baptist Church, Prostitution And 'Bigot' Antonin Scalia

In 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 Congress’s first “gaysian” -- the election of Mark Takano, an openly gay Asian-American from California to the House


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fightthegoodfightnow

(7,042 posts)
1. On Scalia in that same Interview
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:01 PM
Dec 2012

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 what’s been obvious, that he’s just a flat out bigot,” Frank said. “I’d previously said he was a homophobe. And Fox and the rightwing said, ‘Oh just because he’s not for same-sex marriage? And I said, ‘No, let me be very clear. That’s 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 wasn’t 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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2. Thank you for being here
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 04:53 PM
Dec 2012

Glad you checked in. I was so worried meta had made you angry enough to ditch us for good.

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