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Addressing the North Carolina Bar Association in Asheville Friday, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia said unsurprisingly that judges are in error when they find rights to homosexual conduct or abortion in the Constitution.
In his speech, titled Mullahs of the West: Judges as Moral Arbiters, the ultraconservative Scalia said he believes in interpreting the Constitution as it would have been when it was adopted, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports. At that time, he said, abortion, assisted suicide, and homosexual acts were criminal throughout the United States and remained so for several centuries.
He was sorry to say that the Supreme Court, in the second half of the 20th century, began seeing the Constitution as a living, evolving document. About nine terms ago, we held laws against private consensual sodomy, laws that existed in perfect conformity with the Constitution for over 200 years, to be impermissible, he said.
He also said unelected judges are no more qualified than anyone else to make decisions about moral issues for the entire society.
http://www.advocate.com/society/law/2013/06/22/scalia-no-right-homosexual-conduct-constitution
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Asshole.
(Scalia, not you! )
William769
(55,319 posts)This just goes to show how out of touch Scalia is with reality.
I wonder if he literally interprets the Bible? If he did, he would be serving a life sentence in prison.
pscot
(21,024 posts)Anything not specifically forbidden is allowed.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Marijuana
Tanks and Bazookas
Corporations as people
Etc....
dawg
(10,632 posts)Somehow, I'll bet even he has a modern interpretation of that one.
Boomerproud
(8,049 posts)and has any effect on anyone's life whatsoever.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He's an idiot. To HIM, everything's a moral issue.
LuvNewcastle
(16,900 posts)So rather than see the Constitution as a living, evolving document, he decides to channel the dead founders and divine how they would decide cases. That's a much more sane and rational approach.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)PRISM are constitutional?
blogslut
(38,057 posts)Well, except you, Antonin. You're just that special.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)given his own contorted interpretation of the 14th Amendment that stole the presidency from the true winner
pacalo
(24,722 posts)"F*ck him. He was trash."
Scalia doesn't have the sense of fairness or moral fiber to be in the position he was given. He's trash.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Flip flop. Whatever is convenient for him at the moment. The man has no moral compass. He should not be sitting on the bench.
Initech
(100,409 posts)Lifetime appointments are a dangerous thing, and Scalia and Thomas have proved that.