literature. today the church released a statement on its website saying the pastor and members of apostolic truth tabernacle do not condone, teach, or practice hate of any person for any reason, we believe and hope that every person can find true bible salvation and mercy and grace of god in their lives. we are a strong advocate of the family unit according to the teachings and precepts found in the holy bible. we believe the holy bible is the divinely inspired word of god and we will continue to uphold and preach that which is found in scripture. in other words, the apostolic truth tabernacle church will continue to teach 5-year-olds that god wants them to sing hate filled songs. joining me now is democratic congressman barney frank.
just quoted from john s piece there. whether they use it or not, there s another aspect of the massachusetts record that speaks directly to it. one of the reasons why romney left massachusetts and so unpopular is because he quit on the job half way through. he was elected in 2002. he was out the door by the end of 2004. he was using the office as a springboard. sarah palin had the integrity, if we can call it that, to at least leave the building and give up the the paycheck. john heilemann and steve kornacki, thank you both for joining me tonight. thank you, lawrence. coming up, 50 shades of mitt. karen finney and judith grey on how republicans are trying to win over republican voters. and 25 years ago today barney frank made history. he ll tell us what it was like to be america s first openly gay member of congress. and in the rewrite, newt gingrich pretends there s
nobody runs around and asking west was born in the united states. he s a congressman. nobody runs around and says was tim scott born in the united states. he s a congressman. he s african-american. so the idea of asserting any charge against obama managing to get back to race schism is one more device to protect obama. he was, of course, a democrat is is pushing the civil rights act and voting rights act is what inspired the rath of southern voters against the democratic party. and there you just saw newt gingrich s tortured rhetorical device, to protect the southern strategy. to protect the vile race based antics of the national embarrassment called donald trump. to protect mitt romney from charges of prowling around with an incoherent racial racketeer.
gay rights. well, i m very proud of the fact that my voting record on womens issues is a good one. it would be a lousy world that the only people concerned about mistreatment or the discrimination were the victims of it. congressman frank, it was as clear and as quick of an it gets better message as you could have imagined after coming out. there s no question. one of the things i regret, lawrence. a couple of people who immediately told me they were supportive, major republican senators. former senator al simpson. one of the things i regret is there s been a great progress made on diminishing privilege and hate in the country as a whole. unfortunately it s become partisan. the democrats have gotten better at a faster rate in the country. but the republicans have regr s
american military. the don t ask/don t tell policy was repealed. openly gay people have been able to serve in the military, transgender people for month now, and nobody noticed. and so reality is they re feeding the privileejudices. younger people are doing away with it. but there is a problem that the republican party and some minority religious groups are seizing on this in an angry way, but they re going to this lose. congressman frank, i wasn t in a position to publicly congratulate you 25 years ago on that day. i have to say as a montana voter at the time, i couldn t have been more proud. congressman frank, thank you very much for joining me tonight. a month ago from now i m going to be getting married. never thought the day would come that i would be able to do that. i m looking forward to