Gerry Studds among first gays to wed (former MA Congress)

The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) ^ | 5/14/2005 | Karem Eschbacher

[BansheeBill]

Well, isn't that special?

And Gerry wins the race to be the first openly gay member of the Mass congressional delegation to make it to the altar (if you can call call getting married in an apartment an "altar"...wonder why the "Rev" didn't use the church?)

Barney will have to settle for second, if he can just find the right guy to bring to the Temple, a nice boy, someone his mama will approve of.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

It's simply precious.

[newsgatherer]

Should read: The Rev. Thomas Green, a minister in the United Church of the anti-Christ, officiated at the ceremony in his apartment on Beacon Hill., across from the Boston Common.

[boop]

Oopsy, this article let it slip that Studds is a child molester. How is this even possible?

[ErnBatavia]

Studds and Dean Hara, who have been together since 1991, applied for a marriage license on May 18 and were married in Boston on May 24.

What am I missing here....a time-zone thing?

[jackieaxe]

Studds publicly acknowledged he was gay in 1983 after being censured by the House for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page.

From the testimony, he plied the kid with alcohol then forced him into sex. Even if there was no alcohol or no forced sex, he gets "censured". Ya think Charlie Manson would like to get a "censure"?

[Joe 6-pack]

"...applied for a marriage license on May 18 and were married in Boston on May 24.

What am I missing here....a time-zone thing?"

In case you weren't aware, homosexuals violate the laws of nature on a regular basis (mostly at night, from what I understand).

[BansheeBill]

What am I missing here....a time-zone thing?

They were "married" last year (2004). The news of it, is just coming "out" now.

[BansheeBill]

From the testimony, he plied the kid with alcohol then forced him into sex. Even if there was no alcohol or no forced sex, he gets "censured". Ya think Charlie Manson would like to get a "censure"?

Seeing as he represented Cape Cod, Studds plied the young lad with "Cape Codder" cocktails (Vodka and Cranberry juice). I met a guy who worked at a Studds funraiser as a bartender (part time job he had with a caterer) about the same time Gerry was involved in the page incident. Gerry hit on him that night (got turned down, the guy I know is NOT that way) and the guy found out from other fellow workers, that Studds was hitting on all sorts of youngish guys. Hormones must have really be raging in those years.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

In time....all the bird-brains will come home to roost.

Or will it be roast?

[fight_truth_decay]

One of his last speeches on the floor of the House came during a debate on gay marriage.

..."partner, Dean, whom a great many of you know and I think a great many of you love, is in a situation which no spouse of any member of this House is in," he told his colleagues. I have paid every penny as much as every member of this House has for that pension. But my partner, should he survive me, is not entitled to one penny. I do not think that is fair."

....soooooo social security cannot be inherited; and I do not think that is fair.

[putupjob]

Is he hubby or wifey? Is his hubby or wifey better in bed than the underage teenage boy he was having sex with? Sounds like it's time to make him a Senator. Another disgusting scum ball RAT.

[mlmr]

I wonder what happended to that young page? If I were him...it would be lawsuit time!

[oldironsides]

Studds should have been arrested for relations with a congressional page. Oops, he is Democrat and that is his excuse. Chicken hawks from the Bay State are allowed to do anything they want to do.

[LibFreeOrDie]

As Gerry was being censured by his fellow reps in the House, he turned his back on them!

[Goodgirlinred]

Why wasn't he arrested for statutory rape?

[Ole Okie]

What am I missing here....a time-zone thing?

Space-time continuum warped.

Seems to me that "warped" is the right word, too.

[boothead]

This was probably a "shot-gun wedding".

[Clintonfatigued]

"former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds quietly married his long-time partner one week after same-sex marriages became legal."

Gee, Gerry Studs is interested in a grown-up? When I spotted the headline, my first question was "what grade is he in?"

[LibertarianInExile]

I found it strangely appropos that these days, Studds parks in the South End, after all his years in DC parking in the rear end.