Massachusets Congressman Barney Frank (D - East Sodom & Gomorrah) has two words for those who want to let the people speak on the issue of redefining marriage as anything other than one man and one woman -- shut up.

That is the only conclusion that can be drawn from his comments regarding those seeking to place a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot to overturn the dictatorial misinterpretation of the Massachusetts Constitution (written by, among others, John Adams) by the state's highest court.

Massachusetss could face an "angry, divisive" fight if a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage reaches the 2008 state ballot, Rep. Barney Frank says.

The congressman blamed backers of the initiative petition for trying to provoke a new fight despite a lack of controversy over same-sex marriage.

"Basically, they're the disturbers of the civic peace," the Democrat said in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview Thursday. "We now have social peace in Massachusetts. They're the ones who want to stir it up ... This is a non-issue in Massachusetts."

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"I think by 2008, people will say, 'Do we really need to have an angry, divisive debate over a non-issue,'" Frank said. "The question for the 50 legislators is: Do they want to make this a front-page issue again, leading the TV news?"

But Barney, don't you realize that everywhere in the United States wehre the voters have been given a say on the matter they have supported the traditional definition over the liberal social engineering of renegade judges and homosexual activists? If there is division being sown on this issue, it is by those of you who are seeking to bring about change of a fundamental social institution -- especially when you engage in name-calling against those who are seeking to peacefully use the democratic process to make their voices heard.

And though you claim this to be a non-issue, consider the results of the petition drive seeking to put the amendment on the ballot.

The Massachusetts Family Institute said the 124,000 certified signatures it gathered for the petition, nearly double the number required, was a sign of strong public support for outlawing same-sex marriage.

"All they want is an opportunity to vote on the definition of marriage," said the group's president, Kris Mineau. "Now that the people have spoken, the good congressman has decided this is a divisive issue."

But then again, Barney Frank is one of those whose party has gone from being the voice of the common man to one that seeks to frustrate the will of the people by using the courts to implement policies that are rejected by the American people at large.

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