Former congressman Barney Frank on
Friday said that outgoing Republican Representative Aaron Schock
should be “exposed” if he's gay because he has an anti-gay voting
record.
The 74-year-old openly gay Frank, who
is currently pitching his new memoir, Frank:
A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage,
made the comments during an appearance on ABC News' Power
Players.
Schock, 33, resigned in a statement
this week amid questions about his use of federal funds.
Frank reiterated Friday that if
speculation surrounding Schock's sexuality is true, then he's
“forfeited any right to privacy because he votes anti-gay.”
“When you are in public office and
you vote opposite to the way you live your life … I don't think you
have privacy,” Frank
said. “I was asked about Aaron Schock. I said, 'I don't
know.' Anybody who is gay and votes in an anti-gay fashion has, it
seems to me, lost the right to privacy, because it's been converted
into a right to hypocrisy. Any public official who lives one way and
votes another ought to be exposed.”