The medievalist on the Supreme Court
Scalia blocks the aisle against gay marriage
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Published: December 11
The Supreme Court’s announcement Friday that it will take up gay marriage is more than a chance for the justices to recognize the emerging national consensus in support of gay rights.
It is a chance for them to overrule the medieval views of Antonin Scalia.
As if in response to the court’s announcement, the acid-tongued justice visited Princeton University late Monday and reiterated his opinion, expressed in a 2003 dissent, that a law banning sodomy is on par with laws forbidding bestiality or murder.
“If we cannot have moral feelings against or objections to homosexuality, can we have it against anything?” Scalia said when a gay undergraduate pressed him on his views in support of anti-sodomy laws. He defended his noxious comparison: “I don’t think it’s necessary, but I think it’s effective.”
(More here.)
The Supreme Court’s announcement Friday that it will take up gay marriage is more than a chance for the justices to recognize the emerging national consensus in support of gay rights.
It is a chance for them to overrule the medieval views of Antonin Scalia.
As if in response to the court’s announcement, the acid-tongued justice visited Princeton University late Monday and reiterated his opinion, expressed in a 2003 dissent, that a law banning sodomy is on par with laws forbidding bestiality or murder.
“If we cannot have moral feelings against or objections to homosexuality, can we have it against anything?” Scalia said when a gay undergraduate pressed him on his views in support of anti-sodomy laws. He defended his noxious comparison: “I don’t think it’s necessary, but I think it’s effective.”
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
Why does everything in this country have to be a one-sized-fits-all construct? It's getting to the point that states are irrelevant. I wonder if we should just dissolve state legislatures, state governors and the US Senate. What purpose do they serve if everything is dictated to us by Washington?
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