Barney Frank, the moral washout

By WND Staff

Why do they do it? Why do the national TV networks continue to
interview
the openly homosexual Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., as if he is some kind
of
authority on morals and ethics?

There was Frank on last Sunday’s ABC’s “This Week,” being asked to
comment on what Independent Counsel Robert Ray has said about Hillary
Clinton and her role in the firing of individuals in the Travel Office
of the White House. Defending Mrs. Clinton, he accused Ray of a “pattern
of abuse.” And, he said, regarding Attorney General Janet Reno’s refusal
to name an Independent Counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore,
that “in a credibility contest and a commitment to principle and
independent and objective analysis, I’m going to take Janet Reno.”

Wonderful. But, who is Barney Frank to sit in judgment on anybody?

Seriously, think about it. Barney Frank is a person who in the late
1980s was revealed to have had a male “lover” who was running a
homosexual/bisexual whorehouse out of Frank’s Capitol Hill house. Frank
met his criminal “lover” Steve Gobie on April Fool’s Day in 1985 through
an ad in a homosexual newspaper which promised, “Hot bottom plus large
endowment equals a great time.” Frank paid him $80 the first time they
had sex and then hired him as a personal aide for $20,000 a year out of
his own pocket.

At the time, Frank — a member of the House Of Representatives, the
code of conduct for which requires members to act “at all times in a
manner which shall reflect creditably on the House” — said, lamely,
that all he was trying to do was help Gobie because of criticism that
liberals like himself “are interested in helping humanity at large,
maybe with a vote or with a check, but that we don’t show a willingness
to get involved in particular situations, or particular individuals who
might need help.” Frank referred to his “lover” as “Sweet ‘n’ Low”
because he was “a sweet guy but low on cash.”

Frank said he “assumed” Gobie “would just behave properly” in his
house even though Frank wrote an April 16, 1986, memo in which he noted
that Gobie “Was arrested (in January of 1982) and charged with
contributing to the delinquency of a minor and was sentenced to three
days in jail. … In April 1982 he was charged with sodomy, possession
of pornographic materials involving a juvenile … and possession of
cocaine. … He was convicted on all counts and sentenced to four years
in jail, with all but four months to spend it, and three years probation
plus court costs.”

Frank who, despite the above knowledge, in this same memo(!), called
this sleazebag a “decent guy” who had “integrity” and was “very bright.”

Commenting on all this, the Aug. 28, 1989, Washington Post reported
“legal experts” as saying that Frank “could face a variety of criminal
inquiries” such as: felony sodomy; accessory to solicitation of lewd,
indecent or obscene acts; accessory to inviting for purposes of
prostitution; maintaining premises occupied for lewdness, assignation or
prostitution; keeping a bawdy or disorderly house; mail fraud by making
a false statement to a government agency if he misrepresented his
“lover’s” work for him in probation letters he wrote for him; and abuse
of the congressional franking privilege for mailing personal letters.

On July 25, 1990, the New York Times editorialized that Frank was
involved in “a sad mess and abuse of office, whether viewed as a lapse
of judgment or morals.”

Just five days before the Times editorial, the House Committee on
Standards of Official Conduct said that Frank made “factually
misleading” statements and “was not totally candid” — in the end
ducking this issue by referring to Frank’s lies merely as the
congressman’s “opinions.”

Opinions, lies, whatever — please, no more Barney Frank sitting as a
judge on anybody. He has no credibility on anything.