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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...

Image via Wikipedia BOSTON ,  - The Massachusetts legislature has passed a bill that elevates cross-dressing or transgendered individuals to a protected class , and grants universal access to sex-segregated areas such as bathrooms based on personal “ gender identity or expression.” The measure, known as the “Transgender Equal Rights Bill” (H. 502 in the House and S. 764 in the Senate) passed the upper chamber on Wednesday in a voice vote. It’s unclear when the bill will receive final approval votes and be signed into law by Democrat Gov. Deval Patrick , a strong gay rights supporter. The bill  inserts “gender identity” as a protected class under the state’s hate crime law, and also makes it so that a school or other business would be violating the law if it rejected an applicant because he or she was a crossdresser. The pro-family activist group Mass Resistance said the bill would have far-reaching negative effects for traditional values in the public square, most notabl...