Scalia's dissent "dripping with contempt and sarcasm"

[deminks]

http://www.businessinsider.com/antonin-scalias-gay-marriage-dissent-is-dripping-with-sarcasm-2013-6


Today the Supreme Court threw out Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages even if they are allowed under state law.

Justice Antonin Scalia filed a scathing dissent in which he called Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion "rootless and shifting," "confusing," and "perplexing."

(snip)


Then he got really angry:

To be sure (as the majority points out), the legislation is called the Defense of Marriage Act. But to defend traditional marriage is not to condemn, demean, or humiliate those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate other constitutions. To hurl such accusations so casually demeans this institution. In the majority’s judgment, any resistance to its holding is beyond the pale of reasoned disagreement. To question its high-handed invalidation of a presumptively valid statute is to act (the majority is sure) with the purpose to “disparage,” ”injure,” “degrade,” ”demean,” and “humiliate” our fellow human beings, our fellow citizens, who are homosexual. All that, simply for supporting an Act that did no more than codify an aspect of marriage that had been unquestioned in our society for most of its existence—indeed, had been unquestioned in virtually all societies for virtually all of human history. It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race.

(end snip)

So, Fat Tony is concerned about accusations? This from the guy who told us to get over Bush v. Gore? I have lots more accusations, Fat Tony, if I know it upsets you.

[Democracyinkind]

1. This man is stupid.

I am not saying this as a partisan. But the more I read from him the more I get the impression that he is an anti-intellectual, under-educated blow-hard.

"All that, simply for supporting an Act that did no more than codify an aspect of marriage that had been unquestioned in our society for most of its existence—indeed, had been unquestioned in virtually all societies for virtually all of human history."

How narrow a view must you have to be able to spout such nonsense? This might have passed as an argument in 1901 when "history" still meant "what white males did". It doesn't hold up in any other context.

Homoerotics, Bisexuality and Homosexuality are a great and important part of all history. From the Hoplites of ancient Greece to the modern Navy. We wouldn't be what we are, and where we are, without it. For god's sake, there was a time in western history where many people believed that all true love was homosexual, and the rest was just a sideshow to procreate.

[Glorfindel]

3. And evil

In a low-down, bullying sort of way. A waste of protoplasm.

[monmouth3]

8. I agree with you and just wonder if his hyper Catholic faith aids and abets his views..n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. Agreed!

I have never bought into the Scalia legal genius BS that many in the press and elsewhere put forward. I have found his opinions to be anything but genius and more akin to mean-spirited, self-justifying crap. The nail in his coffin in regards to being a genius was Bush v Gore. At that point he became nothing but a naked fraud. I have the thought that Scalia will be savaged by historians after he is gone which can not come soon enough for my tastes.

[spooky3]

12. Ditto

Totally agree about not seeing evidence to support that BS about his "brilliance."

[zbdent]

2. One of the times I hope that there's an afterlife

so that this scumbag gets to explain himself when trying to 5-4 himself through the "pearly gates" ...

[WinkyDink]

4. He isn't speaking as a judicial scholar; he is speaking as a die-hard Roman Catholic, perhaps

unwittingly.

[sibelian]

5. "..... (sigh).... I really AM better than you...

... and you KNOW I am, so how can my saying so be INSULTING?"

[yardwork]

6. Scalia is a hypocrite. /nt

[DCBob]

7. This man has no business being on this court.

What an embarassment and a warning to those idiots who think there isnt a hill of beans of difference between Obama and a Republican President.

[Brickbat]

10. I love it when he froths at the mouth like that.

It's a balm to my heart.

[Arkana]

11. This right here galls me:

To be sure (as the majority points out), the legislation is called the Defense of Marriage Act. But to defend traditional marriage is not to condemn, demean, or humiliate those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate other constitutions.

YES IT IS YOU STUPID FUCK! YES IT ABSOLUTELY DOES DEMEAN GAY PEOPLE!

[customerserviceguy]

13. It's his last gasp on this issue

For years, he's had fear and loathing for this day, he's saved up a truckload of vitriol to pour on it for the occasion. I expected nothing else from him.