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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 06:26 PM Jun 2015

19 Hysterical Passages From Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Dissenters

19 Hysterical Passages From Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Dissenters

by Zack Ford & Judd Legum at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/06/26/3674385/dissent-marriage-equality/

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Scalia: The majority are pretentious narcissists.


The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic. It is one thing for separate concurring or dissenting opinions to contain extravagances, even silly extravagances, of thought and expression; it is something else for the official opinion of the Court to do so. Of course the opinion’s showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent.

Scalia: The majority is trying to overthrow the government, similar to the Nazis in Germany.


But what really astounds is the hubris reflected in today’s judicial Putsch. The five Justices who compose today’s majority are entirely comfortable concluding that every State violated the Constitution for all of the 135 years between the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification and Massachusetts’ permitting of same-sex marriages in 2003.





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19 Hysterical Passages From Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Dissenters (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2015 OP
What about the elves that live on the Moon? shenmue Jun 2015 #1
No elves there, only these guys, hifiguy Jun 2015 #5
Those men must be removed immediately from any court anywhere randys1 Jun 2015 #2
So the real anti equality message boils down to "some forms of some religions think being gay is sin Kber Jun 2015 #3
Scalia is, without question, hifiguy Jun 2015 #4
There was a lot of ignorance and projection in their pontification. Panich52 Jun 2015 #6
Fucking hilarious. X_Digger Jun 2015 #7

Kber

(5,043 posts)
3. So the real anti equality message boils down to "some forms of some religions think being gay is sin
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 06:42 PM
Jun 2015

Ok, but why in the world do they think the civil government should use state apparatus to keep me from committing their religion's sins?

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
4. Scalia is, without question,
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 06:57 PM
Jun 2015

now barking, honking, screeching, full-bore, baying at the moon



And the amusing thing is that Judge Richard Posner destroyed every one of the dissenters' arguments, save for Ruckus' genuinely incomprehensible and irrelevant lunacy, in his opinion of last summer. In all seriousness, Posner burned them to the waterline and dynamited the wreckage just to be sure.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
6. There was a lot of ignorance and projection in their pontification.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:39 PM
Jun 2015

Roberts: The decision invents a new concept of justice.

The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent. The majority expressly disclaims judicial “caution” and omits even a pretense of humility, openly relying on its desire to remake society according to its own “new insight” into the “nature of injustice.”


Roberts: marriage is only about children

(tell that to IRS and estate courts and medical personell in emergencies & end-of-life decisions)

Yall gotta read whole article.
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