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Barney Frank’s same-sex ‘wedding’ attended by Catholic Congressmen

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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...