Just a day after Prop 8 was overturned in California, the Six Pack spoke with Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank about the decision. Oh, and we couldn’t let him go without mentioning gay republicans, weed, gambling, and Kathy Griffin! Click above to listen to the interview.

For those of you who need to do a little current events homework, here’s your CliffsNotes version:

• Frank has been in Congress for almost 30 years
• He was the second openly gay member in Congress 
• He is widely known for his strong defense of civil liberties and legal knowledge
• He is currently chairman of the the House Financial Services Committee
• He had a little, um, incident with Kathy Griffin recently

Frank’s reaction to Judge Walker’s Prop 8 decision: 

“I was happy it was made and I have to tell you I have felt more optimistic because obviously this won’t mean a great deal until it gets to the US Supreme Court….Here is a Republican appointed judge who says…if there’s any rational argument for this, it has to be upheld, and he said there wasn’t any.”

On Obama still being only for civil unions:

“What the President fears, I believe, is that politically it’s not quite safe to be for same-sex marriage. I don’t believe he has any real opposition to it; I think it has been the view, for some time, [that if] you could get elected president, you couldn’t carry states like Missouri and Indiana, and some other very conservative states if you were for same-sex marriage.”

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