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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScalia is not capable of fair judgement as a Supreme Court member
"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," Scalia wrote, accusing the majority of "declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency ... In the majoritys telling, this story is black-and-white: Hate your neighbor or come along with us.""To hurl such accusations so casually demeans this institution," said Scalia, before using his dissent to re-argue the legality of sodomy. Wednesday's decision was inevitable, he said, when the court sanctioned "homosexual sodomy," and striking down the Defense of Marriage Act will inevitably lead to fully legal same-sex marriages.
"When the Court declared a constitutional right to homosexual sodomy, we were assured that the case had nothing, nothing at all to do with 'whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter,'" he wrote. "Now we are told that DOMA is invalid because it 'demeans the couple, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects,' ante, at 23 -- with an accompanying citation of Lawrence.
"It takes real cheek for todays majority to assure us, as it is going out the door, that a constitutional requirement to give formal recognition to same-sex marriage is not at issue here when what has preceded that assurance is a lecture on how superior the majoritys moral judgment in favor of same-sex marriage is to the Congresss hateful moral judgment against it. I promise you this: The only thing that will 'confine' the Courts holding is its sense of what it can get away with."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/doma-scalia_n_3503706.html
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Scalia is not capable of fair judgement as a Supreme Court member (Original Post)
DainBramaged
Jun 2013
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hollysmom
(5,946 posts)1. Duh! Throw in Thomas as well n/t
bemildred
(90,061 posts)2. I think he is losing it, somebody needs to take a look at him.
That illiterate opinion he just wrote was not impressive.