Frank: U.S. Not Ready for Gay President - Would First-Spouse have to pay rent?

[WillParkinson]

Frank: U.S. Not Ready for Gay President

The openly gay congressman from Massachusetts told Maureen Dowd of The New York Times that the existence of the Defense of Marriage Act shows that the United States is not ready for a gay president because it raises the question, “Would his partner have to pay rent in the White House?”

In response, Dowd writes, “I called Barney Frank, assuming the gay pioneer would be optimistic. He wasn’t. ‘It’s one thing to have a gay person in the abstract,’ he said. ‘It’s another to see that person as part of a living, breathing couple. How would a gay presidential candidate have a celebratory kiss with his partner after winning the New Hampshire primary? The sight of two women kissing has not been as distressful to people as the sight of two men kissing.’”

“Because of the Defense of Marriage Act, he added, ‘it’s not clear that a gay president could use federal funds to buy his husband dinner. Would his partner have to pay rent in the White House? There would be no Secret Service protection for the paramour.’

http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/12/20/Frank_US_Not_Ready_for_Gay_President/

[Demstud]

1. Probably true

For now. Lots of work to do.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. I don't think America's even ready for

a straight President with a live-in girlfriend/boyfriend. I can just hear it: "what'll we tell the children?"

[TheWraith]

3. James Buchanan. nt

[Creideiki]

4. Why wasn't DOMA repealed in the first two years?

Oh, yeah. I forgot. We have to defend every law straight to the Supreme Court.

Every. Single. Law.