So... As Far As Scalia Is Concerned... Strips Searches Are OK... And Orgies...

[WillyT]

Orgies are the way to ease social tensions, claims US judge
Oliver Burkeman in New York
The Guardian, Friday 1 October 2004 18.59 EDT

He is the conservative bastion of the US supreme court, a favourite of President Bush, and a hunting partner of the vice-president. He has argued vociferously against abortion rights, and in favour of anti-sodomy laws.

But it turns out that there is another side to Justice Antonin Scalia: he thinks Americans ought to be having more orgies.

Challenged about his views on sexual morality, Justice Scalia surprised his audience at Harvard University, telling them: "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."

It seems unlikely that this is what President Bush meant when he promised to appoint more judges like Scalia to the court, should the opportunity arise. Crucially, Justice Scalia is one of the judges in favour of overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark judgment protecting abortion as a constitutional right.

One audience member also asked the judge "whether you have any gay friends, and, if not, whether you'd like to be my friend," the Harvard Crimson newspaper reported.

"I probably do have some gay friends, but I have never pressed the point," Justice Scalia responded. He offered no clue to the logic behind his claim that orgies eliminate social tensions.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/oct/01/usa.oliverburkeman

[Lint Head]

1. Several members of the United States Supreme Cowards need to be impeached.

[WillyT]

3. Scalia And Thomas Are Obvious Pervy Wankers... Who Else Do You Suggest ???

[Ian David]

2. An orgy without sodomy??? Yawn. n/t

[WillyT]

4. No Man... They Cleared THAT Hurdle...

Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003),[1] is a landmark United States Supreme Court case. In the 6-3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by proxy, invalidated sodomy laws in the thirteen other states where still existed, thereby making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory. The court overturned its previous ruling on the same issue in the 1986 case Bowers v. Hardwick, where it upheld a challenged Georgia statute and did not find a constitutional protection of sexual privacy.

Lawrence explicitly overruled Bowers, holding that it had viewed the liberty interest too narrowly. The majority held that intimate consensual sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected by substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawrence has the effect of invalidating similar laws throughout the United States that purport to criminalize sodomy between consenting same-sex adults acting in private. It also invalidated the application of sodomy laws to heterosexual sex.[2]

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

[Speck Tater]

5. This is outrageous!

When someone is arrested they should be allowed to smuggle whatever they want into jail with them.

[WillyT]

6. Well... We Can Always Count On You To Tow The Authoritarian Line...

You would have been very useful... throughout history...

[Speck Tater]

9. I like to think of it more as "Devil's Advocate"

Here to remind people that stories are not one-sided, and choices are not black and white. There is such a thing a nuance.

[saras]

7. His version of "orgy" may involve lots of roofies

...if you expect him to be consistent, that is...

[Javaman]

8. I can hear the tiny little heads of a million freeps exploding. nt

[countryjake]

10. K&R!

[SomethingFishy]

11. After they get rid of

all that evil contraception they can sit around and try and figure out who knocked up who.

I wonder what Scalia's wife thinks of his stance on orgies.