Posted on 04/16/2012 9:51:24 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) plans to marry his longtime partner in July, which will make him the first member of Congress in a same-sex marriage.
“I think it’s important that my colleagues interact with a married gay man,” Frank said in an interview with New York magazine published online Sunday.
Frank, who plans to retire from Congress this year after 16 terms, became the first openly gay member of Congress in 1987. Frank announced in January his plan to marry longtime partner Jim Ready. The marriage will take place in Massachusetts, one of the six states that have legalized gay marriage.
“I do think, to be honest, if I was running for reelection, I might have tried to put the marriage off until after the election, because it just becomes a complication,” Frank said in the interview. “But I did want to get married while I was still in office.” He called the ability to do so before he retires an “unintended benefit.”
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Guilty as charged.
Anyone want to bet the happy couple takes a honeymoon on a trip overseas whose ostensible purpose is for Congressional oversight for something like the tourist industry in Tahiti or monetary policy in Europe or perhaps Barney’s specialty, LBGT relations.
Is Jim Ready for Barney’s frank???
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