When host Bill Maher commented on Frank's stint as a congressman and a liberal icon, "...you could come on this show, and sit next to a pot smoking atheist, and it wouldn't bother you." Frank then gamely asked which pot-smoking atheist he was referring to, while pointing to and from Maher and himself. Though he has long been known to be Jewish, it is only now that Frank was able to be open about his atheism.
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Former Congressman Barney Frank Finally Comes Out as an Atheist
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/08/03/former-congressman-barney-frank-finally-comes-out-as-an-atheist/
