Barney Frank calls Justice Scalia a 'homophobe'

http://www.myfoxboston.com ^ | Last Updated 19 Aug 2009 | Jim Armstrong

[Maelstorm]

Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" in a recent interview with the gay news Web site 365gay.com .

The Democratic lawmaker, who is gay, was discussing gay marriage and his expectation that the high court would some day be called upon to decide whether the Constitution allows the federal government to deny recognition to same-sex marriages.

"I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court," said Frank. The video of the interview is available online.

Frank's office did not respond to a request Monday to expand on his remark. Scalia also had no comment.

Scalia dissented from the court's ruling in 2003 that struck down state laws banning consensual sodomy. He has complained about judges, rather than elected officials, deciding questions of morality about which the Constitution is silent.

Controversial topics like gay rights and abortion should not be in the hands of judges, he has said, calling on people to persuade their legislatures or amend the Constitution.

[Maelstorm]

How this guy keeps getting re-elected. Even in Massachusetts you'd think they'd tire of this blow hard.

[CPT Clay]

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[bareford101]

I think maybe in Mass. if you are a “blow hard” that is a good thing. According to the types they seem to like there.

[sourcery]

this blow hard.

Hey! I can only assume he deeply resembles that remark!

[bareford101]

Does this mean that Justice Scalia can call him a queer? He started it....

[CounterCounterCulture]

“Homophobe” is the new N-word.

[Andyman]

Methinks Barney is a hetrophobe.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’d really by calling Bawney a “homoprobe”.

[Loud Mime]

We have let the gays have too much in law. Now they believe that heterosexuals are the perverts.

Enough.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes and Dick Army called him “Barney” Fag. Years ago.

[bareford101]

this new politically correct language just goes against the grain of “calling it what it is” IMO. The words are replaced by words that no longer have meaning....

but, your right.....

[FlingWingFlyer]

Really=reply.

Oy. It's getting late.

[bareford101]

amen!!! they will not be happy until the absolute perversion (sin) becomes the norm. that is Roman history, and we best read it, IMO.

[Lancey Howard]

How this guy keeps getting re-elected. Even in Massachusetts you'd think they'd tire of this blow hard.

Nah, not Massachusetts. Bottom of the barrel.

[Maelstorm]

LOL

[the invisib1e hand]

his expectation that the high court would some day be called upon to decide whether the Constitution allows the federal government to deny recognition to same-sex marriages.

if it ever gets that far I think the nation will have other priorities.

[Batman11]

“Dick Army”

Bawney Fwank: “Where do I enlist?”

[True Republican Patriot]

That is a Badge of Honor coming from the Lowlife who had a Homosexual Prostitution Ring running out of his Wash.,D.C. home with his Gay Lover:-(

[JerseyJohn61]

There is one thing for sure in this argument-Scalia could
call Barney a C**k S**k*r-and he’d be right.

JJ61

[Antoninus]

We will never get our republic back until corrupt creatures like Barney Frank are ridden out of DC on a rail and their vile mouthpieces in the media are left abandoned and scorned. Until we can muster the courage to do so, we deserve to have leaders exactly like him.