I love Barney Frank. He's funny, wicked smaht, fair. He puts G's in front of his L's like a certain brother I once knew (Glouie, Glouie), and sometimes he talks a might too fast. But I love this guy and wish he were in my district so that I could say that I vote for him.
Andrew Sullivan writes this about Barney's work on ending job discrimination for homos:
The Republicans - exempting 35 of them - did their best to link employment non-discrimination to marriage rights, expressing their usual spite toward those gay couples who have dared to commit to one another in law and love, by a legislative distraction. But they failed in the end. And most of us are used to the abuse by now. We do not need their affirmation to love one another. But some do still need some framework of protection in order to work without fear - especially in those states where gay couples have been targeted as public threats to the family.
I haven't always supported this legislation, and my libertarian heart is not thrilled by it. But every other minority is federally protected from discrimination in employment; it is increasingly a form of prejudice to say that gay people can be fired at will from their jobs just for being who they are.
I don't subscribe to much of Sullivan's beliefs, but everything he writes on the subject of fairness for all, is usually right on.
2 comments:
Yea, this Barney (unlike the purple one on PBS)is great, caring and articulate.
Wish I too could vote for him. But I think his congressional seat is pretty safe, yes?
Yes,a bunch of people in our lab live in Newton MA, non-purple Barney's district, and they are not shopping around for another CongressCritter. He's safe.
When I think about the idea of safety in Massachusetts I have to remind myself that this place had 4 Republican governors sequentially for a loooong (too long Big Dig style) time. Which started with Bill Weld, who I voted for because the Democrat offered up to us was heinous. Former Boston Univ president whose name I now conveniently forget. He had one arm.
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