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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

Image via Wikipedia Nation's blood supply facing new danger -- stiff political pressure to change rules regarding homosexual blood donors Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) leading the charge TAKE ACTION: See numbers to call below POSTED: July 28, 2011 In 1985 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  instituted a rule that homosexual men may not be blood donors. The FDA had determined this was necessary after a rash of innocent people received HIV infections via blood transfusions. Many other countries, such as Canada, also have instituted those restrictions. The reasons are clear. As the  National Journal  observed this week: Men who have sex with other men, including gay and bisexual men, have an HIV infection rate 60 times higher than that of the general population, the FDA says. They have an infection rate 800 times higher than first-time blood donors and 8,000 times higher than the rate of repeat blood donors. Tests cannot pick up a new HIV infection in the