Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's
announcement that he will
not seek a 17th term in 2012 has prompted Bryan Fisher
to declare that the congressman should not be admired because he
promoted a “deathstyle” that sent men to an early grave, media
watchdog RightWingWatch.org
reported.
Frank said at a press conference on
Monday that redistricting
was behind his decision to retire.
President Barack Obama thanked
Frank for his decades of service and said that he would be missed
in Washington.
On his AFA-sponsored radio show Focal
Point, Fischer told listeners that Frank does not deserve to be
honored or admired.
“Barney Frank served seventeen terms
in Congress and this is some of the stuff in his background: he was
the first openly gay member of Congress,” Fischer said.
“I just saw a deal, according to the
Centers for Disease Control, sixty-one percent of all of the new
HIV/AIDS cases are among men who have sex with men. This is a
dangerous, risky, immoral, unhealthy lifestyle, and Barney Frank has
been an open practitioner of a lifestyle that is condemning one young
man after another to an early grave. This is not somebody to admire,
this is not somebody to honor – you've got all these left-wing
media outlets out there talking about what a colorful figure he was
and how important a legislator he was and how he's going to be missed
on the American political scene. And yet he modeled a lifestyle
which is really a deathstyle. People imitate that. You have got to
know that people are influenced toward that behavior, if they have
any kind of inclination in that direction, if there are very
prominent people that are engaging in it, they're doing it openly,
they are praised by the press rather than criticized for flaunting
this kind of behavior, you've got to know that has got an impact. So
who knows how many people were sort of drawn or encouraged in some
way by Barney Frank's example to dabble in a lifestyle that
eventually cost them their health and maybe even cost them their
lives.” (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.
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