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Democratic Representative Barney Frank has wed his longtime partner, James Ready, becoming the first sitting US congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick officiated the ceremony on Sunday and added some levity by saying Frank, 72, and Ready, 42, had vowed to love each other through Democratic and Republican administrations alike…
Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat and a former chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, has been an openly gay congressman since the late 1980s.
In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state in the country where same-sex couples could be legally married…More than 18,000 same-sex couples have wed in Massachusetts since then.
Yes, some states in the Land of the Free allow more Freedom and Liberty than others.
That’s just awesome. He’s a man of firsts.
He also was the first congressman to have a same-sex prostitute work out of his home while in office.
LOL
>>He also was the first congressman to have a same-sex prostitute work out of his home while in office.
You sure about that?
It seems like every other “Family Values” conservative has something like that going on.
I don’t approve of gay marriage
But
He’s old enough to be his father….
That’s N.A.M.B.L.A. not Gay Rights. 🙂
Good for him!!
Homophobic rhetoric coming from old geeks in 3.. 2.. 1..
0…
As long as they don’t kiss and fornicate in public, I guess I can tolerate it.
How’s that for being progressive?
This Barney Frank?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6coIcgdgF5U
When I listen to Barney Frank talk all I can think about is Scooby Doo.
Buddy Hacket
What is a same-sex union of a man and a woman?
Massachusetts has never legalized gay marriage. Mitt Romney changed the marriage forms to read Partner A and Partner B.
“Yes, some states in the Land of the Free allow more Freedom and Liberty than others.”
Don’t worry after four more years of Barry everything will be controlled from Washington.
It is actually a same-gender marriage.
Words matter.
What do you mean Orchi?
He meant this: http://med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html
But was wrong anyway. Same-sex is the correct term.
Same-sex = doing it the same way all the time? Like, James is always the top, and Barney’s always the bottom? That doesn’t seem fair or fun… I think people should have variety-sex marriages!
Yes they do and it is same-sex marriage not same-gender. sex=biology and gender=behavior.
I guess his partner was Ready for marriage….
I crack myself up 🙂
Barney Ready or Jim Frank. Both sound funny to me. Not in a bad way just funny given the circumstances.
ugly fags
You’re ugly.
So are your two fathers!
If not Barney Frank, who?
It was written in the book.
I look forward to the day when this wouldn’t even be news on Fox
who wants to bet this has Rush Limbaugh’s sphincter all a quiver
Anyone who desperately needed the governments consent for their relationship to gain meaning and permanence is so utterly pathetic that I can’t imagine such a relationship even merits a term like marriage.
So what is a same-sex union of a man ad a woman?
See my earlier post re: the definition of same-sex.
Sigh…why sex education needs to be taught in grade school.
In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state in the country where same-sex couples could be legally married…More than 18,000 same-sex couples have wed in Massachusetts since then.
For what an average wedding costs plus the out-of-town guest expenditures, allowing gay marriages has added hundreds of millions of dollars to Massachusetts’ economy.
Gay couples are job creators! All hail the job creators!
wheres all the 30 comments?
don’t they fit your political agenda?
Um… could they be hiding behind the “Old Comments” link at after the last comment on this page? No, that would be too simple.
And who gives a rats ass (pun intended)…. Couples caring for each other is OK no matter. I don’t care about this jerk (another pun intended) Frank or his boy – but as a principle…. let everybody chose their own destiny. Peace!
My rant goes “There isn’t enough love in the world to call any of it bad.
You got it!
Notice that Frank’s partner is much younger than he is. As I suspect, a lot of this relationship is about physical sex, and money. The younger “partner” gets financial percs, maybe even a cushy job. Not all gay couples are so far apart in age. But I’ll bet a large percentage of them are. Perhaps more so than straight couples. And many of the like aged gay couples, probably still “play the field”, after being married. Their union gives them some financial benefit. But they’re only fooling themselves and others, pretending it’s going to be strictly monogamous. Why should they be any more chase than most of the straights who marry for the wrong reasons?
Percentage of straight couples where one partner cheats at one time or another? I’d guess about 80%.
You guessed wrong! Do your homework.
Yeah, 80% is a number that’s bandied about alot. The highest I’ve found looking at studies varies from mid twenty percent to about 50%. Of course, that’s all surveys requiring self-reporting so the numbers might be a little off.
is that the same boyfriend that ran a male prostitution ring out of his apartment?
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The only thing that pisses me off more than a bunch of a holes trying to deny gay marriage is no one even questions the governments involvement in marriage in the first place. Got one group of morons who won’t question micromanaging morality (while demanding smaller government) and another group of morons who can’t get out of their own way because they insist that government must be involved in absolutely everything. Fucking dumb and dumber.
Well, I question, nae, object to government’s involvement in marriage. But like many, many things that government does, that isn’t going to change, at least in my lifetime.
Meanwhile, although I will raise the point that marriage is none of the state’s business from time to time, doing so tends to make many people “stop paying attention to the kook”.
So, as a practical matter, government will continue to issue marriage licenses and if that’s the case, then there shouldn’t be any sex bias.
For the time being, let us be happy that the state hasn’t decided to enforce the “until death do us part” oath!
James Ready likes Barney’s Frank.
I found it odd that many gay couples live a very monogamous relationship. Sex is not a priority. Is it more about finding a friend to marry? This relationship with Barney Frank and James seems to be that kind of relationship. I could careless and really do not think this is news worthy. We all know their are plenty of messed up heterosexual relationships. Now we know gays have the same issues.
There are messed up heterosexual relationships?
Maybe people should not get married at all.
Maybe they should shack up and pay taxes at the single rate.
I know there is a tax discount for people with marriage licenses, but it can’t be worth all the hassle and expense of getting unmarried if things get messed up.
This is an extremely ugly picture, is it not?
One guy said, “It is actually a same-gender marriage. Words matter.”
Then another came along & said the term is “same-sex marriage.”
Problem here is, same-sex & marriage don’t go together. Words matter, you say?
There was an epic failure of imagination somewhere within the last 20 years when another term couldn’t be devised for “same-sex marriage.” What a clunky concept that is.
The Dutch figured it out though, didn’t they. You go to a lawyer & get all the things you need.
And Barney Frank? No better argument for term limits.
Another victory towards the ultimate goal of mandatory gay marriage or a federal penalty (tax).
Looks like Barney will be getting now what he gave the mortgage industry for years
Icky. New story please…
I thought same sex marriage was two women or two men not a man and a goat…