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Barney Frank: “This is a question, and I appreciate the civil spirit in which he discusses it. Would the gentleman explain to me does…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2006
This is a question, and I appreciate the civil spirit in which he discusses it. Would the gentleman explain to me does how the fact that two women in Massachusetts who are allowed to be legally committed to each other in any way endanger or threaten marriages between heterosexuals elsewhere?
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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