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In addition to calling Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe," Barney Frank also blasted annoying political group CodePink for trying to get attention for some sort of cause during an AIG hearing.

Openly gay Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" in the above interview with 365gay.com. The accurate slam came about when Frank was discussing same-sex marriages and the Supreme Court

Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., pulled transgender people from the legislation that would protect gays and lesbians from workplace discrimination." And since nothing says action like an angry missive or online petition, a letter signed by gay groups was sent to Congress yesterday demanding them to rebuff legislation excluding transgender folk, according to the NGLTF.

Reacting to criticism that the State Department voted against letting two gay rights groups into a United Nations panel, the State Department issued a statement last Friday denying that the vote was due to any sort of anti-gay bias. Instead, they did it because of a concern over pedophilia.

Sort of touching on the previous post, our boy Gavin's not having the best week this week either. His tax increases lost (so MUNI fares may go up to $1.50, 300 city employees will be fired, and a homeless shelter will be closed -- you gotta kinda admire Newsom, he went on record and was like, "if you don't vote for tax increases, I'll shoot this dog," and now he's going to shoot the dog), his Board of Supervisors will continue to be divided, Bad Reporter continues to envelop him in a spoon-hug on the carpet, and now this?