Subscribe to Breaking NewsLive from the LGBT luncheon w/Barney Frank and Tammy Baldwin
Barney Frank is speaking – he said he’s seen more members of Congress here than any other event. I counted nine.
His message is an important one:
Of the people who voted against the Constitutional gay marriage ban – only one, a Michigan Republican, was defeated.
No Democrats were defeated who voted against it.
But there were people who voted FOR the constitutional ban who were then defeated by those who were against it.
Other Frank quotes:
“If you don’t want a decision to be made politically, don’t ask 535 politicians to make it.
“Will everybody else please stop bithcing about trivia. This is about real issues- not the least of these issues is LGBT equality. If we pick up some house seats, having majority will enable us to do everything we want to do – and make everything the gay agenda.
“What’s our homosexual agenda? We want to get married, join the army and get a job. That’s within our grasp electorally.”
“John McCain is better from the standpoint of LGBT issues than Rick Santorum. Like Henry Youngman said: Hows your wife? Compared to what?”
“In a party that has been outspokenly homophobic, John McCain has been less substantively homophobic. McCain has never voted for anything that would legally advance our equaity- ot hate crimes, not ENDA, he’s still for ban on gays in the military even though others say it’s time to change it. ”
“If Obama wins, we will have a very real chance to win real equality. But if John McCain wins and he vetoes our bills, there is no way we can get 2/3 majority to override it.”
“Electing Obama is essential to our achievment of legal equality. Without him, we will not have it.”
