Barney Rips Republicans a New One

The inimitable Congressman from Massachusetts, speaking yesterday on the hate crimes bill. You go, man:

Gotta tell you, fellas, it's just breathtaking to see an openly gay Congressman speaking up for our rights in front of God and everybody, to someone like me - who remembers quite vividly a world in which nobody spoke up for us, and the only gay person on the face of the earth was one scared, lonely kid in a small Southern town - or so it seemed.