Tea Party Members Hurl Gay Insults at Barney Frank Over Health Care Reform

Tea Party members protesting health care reform in Washington DC on Saturday, hurled insults at several congressmen, including openly gay Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank. Tea Partiers called Frank a "Fa**ot" and civil rights movement hero John Lewis a "ni**er."

The tea baggers also spat the label "Homo Communist" at Frank, urging him with elementary school-like erudition to go "homo to Massachusetts," Frank told the Washington newspaper, The Hill.  He also had to call Capitol police to remove five or six protesters who were banging on his door and screaming through the mail slot.

In an interview with CNN Frank said he was disappointed by the name-calling. "There's an unwillingness to be civil," he said, adding that he rarely hears such slurs anymore. The health care issue, however, has become "the proxy for a lot of other sentiments. A lot of which are perfectly reasonable but some of which are kind of ugly."

"If this was a movement that I was part of, I'd be doing more than I think the Republicans are, to differentiate myself," Frank told The Hill.

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