A quick chat with Barney Frank...

Before the start of the LGBT delegate lunch yesterday at the Sheraton (the one Michelle Obama made an unannounced visit to), I chatted up Barney Frank, one of only two openly-gay membes of congress.

I wanted to get Barney's thought on gay marriage in California since he is from Massachusetts where same-sex coupes can also marry and on Proposition 8 on the November ballot which seeks to re-ban gay marriage.

"I think that it;s very important that we win that," he said. "If this referendum were a year later, I'd be totally confident because once you have the reality of something like this, the opposition goes away because all of the negative arguements are proven incorrect. If it had happened last year, it would have lost. If it happened next year, it would have won big. This year I don't know. But one thing we know: the more people see what the reality is, the more the opposition ,melts away."