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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:13 AM Sep 2015

Why Justice Antonin Scalia, you look like a gay couple just walked over your grave.



With less than two weeks before the start of the new Supreme Court session, Justice Antonin Scalia is still lamenting Obergefell v. Hodges, the June ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

At a Tuesday speech at Rhodes College, which his grandson attends, the justice blasted the decision, calling it the "furthest imaginable extension of the Supreme Court doing whatever it wants," according to The Associated Press.

Scalia dissented in the case, accusing the court of being a "threat to democracy" and the justices who ruled for a constitutional right to marriage for gay couples the "Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast." The speech at Rhodes seemed to signal that his dismay over gay marriage continues.

"Saying that the Constitution requires that practice, which is contrary to the religious beliefs of many of our citizens," Scalia said, "I don't know how you can get more extreme than that." He added, "I worry about a court that's headed in that direction."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/justice-scalia-still-mad-over-gay-marriage-ruling_56031472e4b00310edf9e6b0
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Orrex

(63,213 posts)
1. When he dies, I hope that they rig up some sort of national plumbing system
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:21 AM
Sep 2015

So that people everywhere can easily piss on his grave.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
5. I don't wanna spend that money on his dead ass...
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 08:15 AM
Sep 2015

Can we just make his headstone a port-a-potty?
Same goes for Cheney..

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
2. "contrary to the religious beliefs of many of our citizens" - the whole point is that
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:27 AM
Sep 2015

religious beliefs do not determine the constitution of laws of the USA. It's not 'extreme' - it's the essence of moderation. You don't allow the extremists to impose their religious ideas on other people, such as discrimination.

yardwork

(61,622 posts)
3. It's scary that a Supreme Court justice doesn't get that.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:32 AM
Sep 2015

I can think of two decisions Scalia agreed with that were far more activist.

I think he's preoccupied with sex. I wonder if he and Thomas watch porn together.

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
7. There are precious few people that I will ever celebrate the death of
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:03 AM
Sep 2015

Mostly because it goes against my belief as an atheist to view lives in that way.

Yet Scalia is one of a handful where I will fist pump the air with a hell yeah mothafucka

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
8. Fuck off Scalia, I cannot wait for you to have to resign from the bench.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:06 AM
Sep 2015

You are a pox on society and you don't give a shit about the rule of law.

FUCK OFF.

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