Barney Frank’s same-sex ‘wedding’ attended by Catholic Congressmen
Barney Frank , the first open homosexual to serve in Congress, got “married” to his boyfriend this weekend in a five-minute service that counted among its attendees many putatively Catholic members of Congress . Over the weekend Frank attended a ceremony with James Ready , a carpenter and welder from Ogunquit, Maine , who is 30 years his junior. Current Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick presided over the quickie procedure at a Marriott hotel in the Boston suburb of Newton. The event – which was closed to the media – attracted many of Frank’s colleagues from politics, several of them Catholic, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , Sen. John Kerry , and Rep. Dennis Kucinich . Other attendees included Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, Texas Democratic Congressman Al Green, and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, whose daughter recently came out of the closet . Barney Frank, right, with James Ready. Catholic bishops have urged the fai