Posted on 12/18/2008 4:30:13 PM PST by Libloather
Rep. Frank asks to bring beau on House floor
By Betsy Rothstein
Posted: 12/16/08 06:48 PM [ET]
Even if House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) had access to spousal privileges, he would not be allowed to bring the man known as his boyfriend, Jim Ready, 39, a surfing enthusiast, to the House floor.
Last week Frank approached the Speaker’s Lobby with Ready, who was spotted wearing a green blazer and the traditional congressional spouse pin, and asked to bring him into the Chamber. He was told no.
The rules are that no spouse or life partner — gay, straight, male, female — is allowed on the floor. Only a lawmaker’s children are allowed to accompany a parent into the chamber.
**SNIP**
“Spouses aren’t allowed in here,” remarked a Capitol employee, explaining, “Kids aren’t a pain in the a-- on the floor.”
Frank has given the spouse pin to his partners before. He said in the mid-’90s he gave it to his then-partner Herb Moses. He said other gay lawmakers also have given pins to significant others such as Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)’s domestic partner, Lauren Azar.
It’s “up to you,” Frank said, explaining that he gets to decide to whom to give his spouse pin. “In much of the country there is no way for a same sex couple to do anything officially,” he said. He added, it “isn’t any of your business” if he and Ready will have a commitment ceremony.
**SNIP**
“It’s got to be a serious relationship,” said a spokeswoman for the House Sgt. at Arms office. “If something goes bad then we lost a pin. We’re not in a process of supplying pins for every girlfriend or boyfriend a member has. He wants to make sure it’s a serious, committed relationship.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“his boyfriend, Jim Ready, 39, a surfing enthusiast”
Nice CV.
Hey Barney, stick the pin in his butt so you won’t lose it!
Ah yes, the cupcake Barney only liked for his Fannie.
Do we have to watch them have sex. PUKE!
Looks like it's true - he's a world-class self-promoter (at the taxpayers' expense)...
Well—wasn’t he running a gay brothel out of his basement? Words fail me when I even just think of this POS!
A 39 year old surfer? Is this Barney’s Trophy “Wife”?
The light at the end of the tunnel is the fires of hell. This kind of shit is what we get to look forward to with libtards in control of gov’t.
Rome Revisited
We know how that one turned out.
For they have no shame and do what they will without regard for their office or their constituents or the institution that is sullied.
Careful! You’re starting to sound a bit judgmental about Barney’s same sex, play toy of the moment.
Napalm the place.
Sodom and Gomorrah come to America and infest the halls of our Government.....
Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens” Genesis 19:24. “Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly” II Peter 2:6.
How sad that so many Americans died in order that our land should one day arrive at this.................
The good people who vote -- or NOT -- in Massachussetts...
Never cease to amaze me....
There once was a young man from Boston...
etc... etc... etc...
Barney turned his own house into a Brothel, guess he wants to do the same with our House.
Multiple spouses, sequential spouses... this is what we are in for with Obama and Co.
*Jim Ready, 39, a surfing enthusiast*
Barney’s boyfriend is a beach bum and Barney is his sugar daddy. Got it.
You can bet our culture is pretty much DOA when homosexuality is treated as something respectable. If TV is any guide, homosexuals are our betters: more artistic, kinder, richer, and just plain fun to be around.
Given the not-so-gay riots over Prop 8, one can see a point where the US could be like Sodom and Gomorrah. Twenty years ago, who would have thought such things could happen?
Bwaney Fwank is a silly little queer.
He wants to show off his trophy queer
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