From the Dec. 15, 1976 issue of The Advocate (page 8), please note the quote at the beginning of the paragraph halfway down the third column:
For those who can’t make it out:
The bills will pass in ’77.
– St. Barney
For those not keeping score, Massachusetts did not pass a gay rights bill until 1989. By then, St. Barney had been in Congress for eight years (though he was spending 1989 calling in every political favor, marker and chit he could unearth in order to avoid getting kicked out of Congress. Google ‘Steven Gobie.’ Just sayin’….)
Thirty years after his declaration of what would happen in 1977 he bullied the LGBT community – trans people most pointedly – with what he *knew* was capable of passing and not passing. And then he professed to know for certain that 15-20 more Democrats would make a legitimate (read: trans-inclusive) ENDA a sure thing.
Between the Massachusetts Legislature and Congress, St. Barney drew a legislative salary for forty years.
In all of that time, was he ever right about anything?
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