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kpete

(71,998 posts)
Thu Dec 13, 2012, 09:47 AM Dec 2012

Daily Beast to Scalia: “Do you sodomize your wife?”



When the time came for audience questions, a student named Eric Berndt stood up in the packed auditorium and pressed Scalia to explain his dissent, particularly his opinion as to whether it was constitutional for the government to peer into the bedrooms of consenting adults and punish them for what goes on in there. When Scalia did not answer to the student’s satisfaction, Berndt asked him, “Do you sodomize your wife?”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/12/justice-antonin-scalia-in-hot-water-again-over-homosexual-comments.html

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Daily Beast to Scalia: “Do you sodomize your wife?” (Original Post) kpete Dec 2012 OP
This kid, John2 Dec 2012 #1
looking at that pic of Scalia, I wouldn't want that guy NEAR to me, much less er, anything else! CTyankee Dec 2012 #2
 

John2

(2,730 posts)
1. This kid,
Thu Dec 13, 2012, 10:04 AM
Dec 2012

just destroyed a Supreme Court Justice. Scalia couldn't answer the question, but people supporting him wanted Scalia to hide behind his status in society. If this was a Perry Mason episode, Scalia would have lost the case. He probably would have used the fifth or committed perjury.

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