BARNEY FRANK: ENDA/Transgender Press Conference HIGHLIGHTS

[dbrown234]

i taught i taw a putty cat

[samurai1833]

Do the recent changes in DADT make the achievement of ENDA more likely or less likely?  And has Frank been a effective supporter of these issues?

[rfaass00]

TIME FOR A CHANGE - NO MORE BARNEY FRANK

[john51880]

Please vote for Sean Bielat!

[Il00OOll]

The best politician in Washington.

Barney Frank for president!

[DarthKreeg]

I hate this guy,not because he's gay but because he was involved in the franklin cover up.

[monkeymichel]

his clothes don't fit

[lababoc]

LEFTIST???!!!! "NORMAL" PEOPLE some people are just plain stupid

[mvbeckril]

This is who Massachusetts' elects as America's representative...? This guy is it? A fucking fag buttfucking liberal... no wonder the N.E is known as a kweer loving dem society.

[usucdik]

And you're part of the major reason why much of the world looks down on America and its backward ways.

[mvbeckril]

Barrney's a fag with a speech problem... eliminate him now!

[mvbeckril]

This is America.. an elected faggot with a speech problem who's an extreme leftist who's in charge of deciding what NORMAL people do! He's the Dancing Queen! Fuck you you cocksucking kweerbait!

[Death2Evil]

@mvbeckril: What's normal?

[junglemike72]

Franklin Cover up.

[BigEdgePoker]

For those of you who didn't catch it..."As part of a defense bill" This is how things get done. Its basically piggybacking and its a way of getting things into law that people dont even know they are voting on like the UIGEA

[BostonBreeze]

Barney- you don't represent the interests of the people of your district. You are in Washington clearly for your own benefit. The people will vote you out in 2010. Sholley for Congress 2010 !!!!!!

[LaRoucheisright]

Rachel Brown for congress. Dump this fat pig.

[erictoggle]

keep in mind.he is lying too fags also,his own kind.that makes him as well as lair a hypocrite

[heartsofspace]

Barney Fag...I mean Frank, is a left-wing cockroach. But seriously, folks, to make Barney happy, give him a Playgirl Magazine, or, better yet, take him to a male strip show.

[BeantownJim]

im ashamed of being from massachusetts and i cant move out just yet

[rednxrule]

i'll better he is a child molester too

[darkwitchtori]

statistically unlikely - 95% of child molesters are straight men.

[ringingo007]

5% of men are gay. Therefore, 100% of all gay men are child molesters. (Based on daekwitchtori's logic. Idiot.

[billottte]

@ringingo007 I hope in the year since you wrote this that you have taken a statistics course. You clearly need it.

[rednxrule]

what a hair-lipped cocksucker (literaly).

[loudnproudusa]

what a waste of flesh this asshole is!

[livinglikeaking]

We are just going crazy, what a sham, Frank is is such a bad Representative.

Every word out of his mouth is a lie

[sfclong]

how does he keep getting elected? ACORN?

[gkostos]

I agree...this asshole is a crook and he needs to go to jail! A THIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gkostos]

A psychotic lip sucked money stillin' S.O.B!!!!

[WakeUpHuckabee]

Think Different in 2009 - McCain/Palin~~~~~~

/watch?v=4NUtQcufnQI

[DK0526]

sounds like he has a cock in his mouth!

[rvrcitygrl]

Would somebody pleeeeease get Barney some speech therapy? He sounds like half the kids in my son's preschool class.

[guarddog22]

That greedy scumbag Barney Frank (I'm gay, so this is not homophobia) better admit his part in the financial crisis the country is in now.

[skitman1944]

Barney Frank talks like he has a dick in his mouth.... oh shit sorry he has had thousands of dicks in his mouth.

[cffalk]

this guy is NAMBLA member

[Dealit707]

If Barney could have his way, the U.S. Congress would have an annual TG Day, on which all members of Congress would be required to show up wearing slinky evening dresses, while braodway show tunes played in the background during the Congressional hearing. Oh Yeah!! Only in Barney Fag world.

[KingJesusforyou]

GOD LOVES YOU.

GOD MADE MAN AND WOMAN.

NOT MAN TO BE WOMAN OR WOMAN TO BE MAN

READ PSALM 139.

Don't follow religion.

Don't follow man.

[huh98]

sorry I'm not superstitious nor do I take stock in a book that's been rewritten and translation so many times that it's more than likely not the original article. I don't mean to offend you but you're misguided my little droogie. No one choses to be transgender or gay so I'm sure you don't believe me that's fine. But understand that sandscript is barely understood and the bible is a collection and there were hundreds that were rejected. Who's to say that Pslams is canon. So I'll pass

[belindadarlington]

Is this man drunk???

[huh98]

no just spineless and out for only things that benifit him.

[robsoletethinking]

Passing gay rights protection will set up a precedent for TG protection down the road.

I can understand the frustration of TG activists, but change comes in stages. To completely discount him as a "transphobe" is to skewer one of your few allies in a very conservative landscape.

[huh98]

no he is a transphobe. his past deeds and remarks have indeed given cause for the label. The only time that he's talked good for transgender was when it's benificial. He's gone as far to say that transpeople don't fight for their rights. I guess he never heard of the Stonewall or Compton Cafateria Riots. He sees what he wants. You have to understand that HRC promised just days before the betrayal that we would not be left out of ENDA. I'm tired of be stabbed in the back. No more.he is what he is

[pigpen7471]

how dare you!, YOU are "counter productive"

[samurai1833]

Couple of questions:

Is there a "gay community"?

Is there a concern that the combination of GBLT concerns clouds the issues unecessarily?

For example; conservative christian blacks may understand civil rights for their own experience but not support GBLT freedoms. Does that kind of fracturing happen in the "GBLT" community or is it really unified? I'll be in Austin this year to learn more

[jedispeak2k]

Yes there is....it is waning but it still lives. and you may need to read about Bayard Rustin. a Black Gay man who was the Key organizer on Dr. King's March on washington. I am throroughly livid with the Black comunity on this matter. ( by the way, I am both Gay and Black) I will be in austin eventually for a different issue.

[kaywahine]

We will fight for you.... we will fight for you... and guess what it took 9 months to get a "hearing" in front of a committee on transgender rights.... Where have you been Barney Frank. Throw us under the bus and go "oh so sorry"

[kelligirl2007]

Barney Frank take great pleasure in taking transgender to the top of Mt. ENDA and kicking us off. THANKS AGAIN FRANK.

[pigpen7471]

AMEN!

[jedispeak2k]

I am sorry but, In retrospect, the man is a beast ( and I say that as a term of respect and endearment...I like this guy's style) when it comes to dealing with Discrimination and glbT issues. It was a hard strategic decision that could lead the way for the T to ba added later. that is the same way I feel what happended with the Civil Rights movement. but, the T will NOT be left in the dust.  unlike the Gay men who were instrumental in the 60's with the civil rights movement and left behind.

[yeahgoahead]

Yeah you know why hes slobbering right ????????

[dberger2004]

Good ole Barney Fag. Almost needed a spit screen just to watch this. Slobbers more than Daffy Duck for christ sake.

[928177]

not to mention we are voters

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

Transophobe Barney! You're not talking to a novice here, I've lived this and you "straightacting" gays will not march us into the crematorium! Its time for all trannies to out every closet queen they know, they are NOT on your side! Fuck you mister Barney! Political gays always want to blame the trannies and drag queens , fine, then kill every one of us if you love the Republicans so much. I doubt you're man enough to try. You won't get past my front door fucker1

[katydstewart]

Facts:

We had the votes, support for the inclusive version of ENDA (trans inclusive). Leadership however, still refused to go forward with the inclusive bill. GLBT community advocates had every suporter promised towards ENDA with Transgender inclusion. Barney Frank and others still withdrew the inclusive bill.

[progay]

I hope ENDA gets approved

[GretchenDawntreader]

I have to agree with Barney Frank. Take the victory you can win now.

He's working hard and with passion on this issue but he's right, what you want and what you can get aren't always the same thing. You could make a bill that has gay marriage and protection for everyone and partner benefits and produce a bill that would never pass, ever. That might be a statement, but not a victory.

Cut the man some slack. He's doing the work while most of us rant on the internet.

[huh98]

no no actually alot are doing alot for trans rights. so how dare presume that's all alot of us do. what he's doing is spineless. he's also spoke negative about transpeople in the past. no screw him. there was lobbying. he's either lying or blatantly misinformed. We were promised at Southern Comfort. DAYS before they pulled us off the bill. That's backstabbing and betrayal. I don't know many that react well to that. If they will vote for sexual prefference they would vote for gender identity.

[AndrogyneMichinaga]

I hate to see this happen, but I see his point. They've counted the votes that they will get when it gets on the floor of the house, and have went for a compromise. If ENDA is passed for LGB employees, then that is a start, and it makes it easier to push further in the future. If it withers, because there just aren't the votes for protecting the whole rainbow, then the culture of non-discrimination is not getting a foot-hold.

[huh98]

no betrayal is betrayel. I'm sorry but this "I might get what I want and I'm afraid that standing for you will jeperdise it so I'll kick you to the curb."thing don't hold water to me. no he's a coward. if they would vote for sexual indentity they would vote for gender identity considereing that most can't tell the difference anyway. There are more trans people than gays that are being discriminated from jobs. So why take out the clause that would benifit the group that could use it the most.

[darliegoddess]

Barney Frank, LIAR ! FRAUD ! INCOMPETENT !

[RobynWatts]

Barney Frank has always had a serious case of transphobia much like the Human Rights Campaign (which BTW threw TG people under the bus the last time ENDA came up in the 90s).

Barney is a spinless turd!!!

[RobynWatts]

Check that, it's spineless turd!!!

[miinteh]

this community will not be divided anymore! i am bisexual and i do NOT want a sexual-orientation only ENDA!

[plainolderica]

One day it will be passed, with inclusion for us trans folk, but you won't get any credit for it Barney. With people like Barney in DC, it is true, there are serious limits to what a "democratic" system can deliver. He's all about CYA, and nothing but CYA. The purple dinosaur has bigger nads than this one.

[allangn64]

pfft who needs friends like this and yes im trans.

[bilmar78]

Hi I would like to encourage you to be very outspoken about who you are, because the world needs to hear about transgender people because when they dont know about something or have never dealt with it usually leads to ignorance and intolerance.

Much LOVE

Joe

[huh98]

Rock on Joe. I couldn't agree more. :)

[Levesque999]

Fuck you, Barney

[petramwilson]

I think we should fire him because of his effeminate lisp....

[becca00]

Seriously, Barney, you're contradicting yourself at almost every turn.

[becca00]

Barney Frank: Hypocrite.

[ATOMSF]

Thank you, Barney.