Barney Frank fighting marriage amendment

The Massachusetts congressman and chairman of House Financial Services Committee will be raising money at St Pete's Dickens House b and b Oct. 7 for Florida Red and Blue. That's the committee organized to defeat the marriage amendment.

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if it will keep another generation of bushes from breeding, im all for it!!

who let chimpy and "crash" welch get hitched in the first place?

EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

Wow!! What a surprise that this thread is not flooded with hate-filled remarks from intolerant, homophobic Republicans.

I use to be "homophobic"... but I sold my condo and bought a house... now I have no problem with homes.

That's fantastic! Great to see national figures getting involved early for the cause. Go Florida Red and Blue!

barney frank is an ugly, predatory queer.

Ummm… YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN DYING IN IRAQ!… sorry gays, you’ll have to wait… more important things to do.

1:33- what is it that you're doing to prevent young men and women from dying in Iraq that precludes a concern for what happens right here in Florida?

[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]

There are no gays in Iran like in this country

2:09 you mean there are no gays LEFT ALIVE in Iran.

Red, White and Blue? How about Red Herring? That's what this is. While you fools are sqwabbling and wasting time, energy and money on an amendment nobody really intends to see passed what about all the real issues: war, education, healthcare...

Thank you 2:19... only gays care about Barney's Frank. The rest of us are focused on real issues.

Get with the program, pole smokers... let it go.

[Gene Smith]

WEll 3:11, if you wing nuts were not trying to put an anti gay marriage amendment in the Florida Constitution, other folks wouldn't have to be trying to keep it out.

Have you seen the list of groups in this coalition? Everybody from the elderly to Planned Parenthood is lining up against this thing. How about joining us and putting an end to wedge issue ammendments once and for all?

[Zhombre]

"anti gay marriage ammendments" have passed in ostensibly blue states, Gene, such as Oregon in the last election; they passed in states that went for Kerry and not Bush, which means that many Democrat voters and not merely "you wing nuts" voted for preservation of marriage as being between a man and a woman. And none of this would be necessary if you pommpous (notice I emulate your spelling) wings nuts on the left were not trying to redefine marriage if not by legislation, where it would surely be rejected, then by judicial fiat. Winning in the courts what you can win at the ballot box has been the hallmark of liberal activism for many many years.

[Gene Smith]

Yes, and the anti gay marriage amendment lost in Arizona.

Whenever your side gets a court ruling it likes, Zhombre, it cll it stict consrtructionist. when it gets a ruling it does not like, it is liberal activism. You know, there are quite a few of us out here who happen to be believe that liberal activism is a good thing. Liberal activism gave us the pure food and drug laes, the 40 hour work week, the child labor laws and Brown vs the Board of Education.

It is the height of judicial activism for the Roberts Court to take a well stlled legal principle, such as enunciated in Brown and turn it on its head like this court is doing. What , oh what ever happened to starre decisis? It has been stuck down by the activist Roberts court.

Gene,

The 40 hour work week is for laborers. Many of us in the educated, professional class work far beyond 40 hours.

Gene,

starre decisis is the understanding that higher/apellate court rulings hold precedent, not lower and its the place of the lower court to rule based on that precedent, even if the judge disagrees...

long story short it means the SUPREME court has every right to reestablish new precedent, and that th lower courts should respect its decisions when rendering their own.

I "rendered my own" once... my mother kept telling me I'd go blind, but I didn't listen to her.

$$##$@^#*(... ouch!, I hot my head on my mousepad.

12:35 In addition to your pathetic ad homenim attack (queer? wow you are sick) add this. the smaretst man in Congress. I know you don't see many of those at your book-burning, Claude Osteen red-state rallies. Do mankind a service and euthanzie yourself!

[Zhombre]

Oh Gene, I doubt you know what you are talking about when you talk about stare decisis, except what you've learned from DNC talking points (inventors of the phrase Roadblock Republicans, which you parroted at your blog and which seems to have a rather short shelf life). Gatordem, you make obtuseness into an art form (of course some persons may construe that as an insult, but given your confidence, presumption and the fact you seem unburdened by self awareness, my guess the comment will wash over you). Yes, the Arizona referendum did not pass; it was restrictive, and not only would have barred gay marriage but any legal accommodation in the form of civil unions. I don't support gay marriage but I would not have voted in favor of that restrictive amendment either. But you miss the point, that the people got to vote on the issue, instead of having the issue decided for them by judicial fiat. My point was that the left has used the courts to achieve what they could not achieve in the legislature and in winning over public opinion. The "liberal activism" you cite in the past is very good, but has nothing to do with redefining marriage and, btw, those food and drug laws were instituted by --- gasp! -- Republican reformers at the beginning of the 20th century.