Barney Frank: “It is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.”

This is a legislative enactment that essentially says that the fact that I live in a loving committed marriage with another man is somehow a threat to other people's freedom.

Barney Frank, the author of the Dodd-Frank bill, in this committee, sitting in that chair, who has testified in this committee that he told us that the $50 billion threshold is arbitrary and that we should look at alternative methods for…

They shouldn't lose their tax-exempt status but neither should they be able to go for a Federal grant as they would be under this bill.

I hope that the committee will.