Barney Frank on ... GOP Lawmakers' Gay Marriage Support

[Jamie D]

Barney Frank On Obama's LGBT Executive Order, GOP Lawmakers' Gay Marriage Support

No longer a member of Congress, Barney Frank is still weighing in with his well-known blunt positions, but "relaxing" while doing so. Responding to Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) last week becoming the third GOP senator to support marriage equality, the recently-retired Massacusetts Democratic congressman dismissed any notion that it represented GOP progress on the issue. In the process Frank also slammed Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who came out for marriage equality three months ago while noting that his son is gay, saying Portman's evolution doesn't "count" or get him "a lot of points." And, in an opinion that will surely anger some LGBT activists, Frank urged President Obama not to sign an executive order barring anti-LGBT discrimination among federal contractors, switching his position of last year in which he urged the president to sign the order.

"Forty-two to 3? No, not yet," Frank responded in an interview on my SiriusXM radio program when asked if Murkowski's evolution showed the GOP moving on the issue. "And I don't count Rob Portman -- I mean, being nice to your son, you don't get a lot of points.

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