Vantro wrote:

Needs to go. Supreme court justice Antonin Scalia compared gay rights to a child molester. He is questioning the constitutionality of gays rights. This man has no business serving on the supreme court. He is a ridiculous bigot better off being a lawyer for a church & not in a position to deny equality. His statements are incorrect, frightening & infuriating!

“What minorities deserve protection?” he said rhetorically. “What? It’s up to me to identify deserving minorities?”“What about pederasts?” he asked. “What about child abusers?”“This is a deserving minority,” he went on, jokingly. “Nobody loves them.”

 
Whenever people use this comparison, I wonder if they have any real sense of empathy, or if they base their morality solely on obedience and tradition. The obvious difference between homosexuality and pedophilia is that when people act on pedophilia, it harms other people. That is what's bad about it. That is the problem about it. Not even so much that it's "deviant" or "perverted", but that children are harmed when pedophiles act on their feelings. This does not apply to homosexuality. And that should be really obvious. But the repressed, Christian morality that has dominated views on sexuality for centuries has been so influential and has done such a good job at demonizing all non-procreative human sexuality that some people still subscribing to these misanthropic views genuinely seem unable to tell the moral difference between sexual acts that harm others and those that don't. 


 

The whole SCOTUS is so precarious with an average age of about 70 and two appointees from Reagan still among the group. Ginsberg, Scalia, Kennedy and Breyer are all hovering around 80 years old. The next POTUS will probably have a great deal of influence on the tone of the SCOTUS. 

These comments and some previous ones by both Scalia and Thomas really make me smh and worry about what would happen if a hardline Republican got in for even four years. The US is at such a pivotal moment where you could be socially and culturally progressive with the rest of the western world, or slip into some kind of Christian Taliban theocracy headed by the likes of Cruz and Huckabee. Imagine what a Supreme Court appointee under those two knuckleheads would look like. Scary as hell.

And look, here we are less than a month later and he's made more offensive comments, this time about black students needing to go to lesser schools because they can't keep up at the big schools.

Is there any precedent for removing a Supreme Court Justice or do we just have to hope he dies before he does any further lasting damage? Once Hillary gets in we will hopefully get a few more moderates on the SCOTUS.

Scalia...wrong about everything.

Now he wants blacks to go to less demanding colleges???

Just one of many reasons why we have to work for Hillary's win. She is in no way perfect but she for sure is who I will vote for and will work to get others to get out and vote for.  We really have some losers on the SC and it's by far no joke.

Scalia's mind is mush at this point.

“To tell you the truth there is no place for that in our constitutional tradition. Where did that come from?” he said. “To be sure, you can’t favor one denomination over another but can’t favor religion over non-religion?”
He also said there is “nothing wrong” with the idea of presidents and others invoking God in speeches. He said God has been good to America because Americans have honored him.

“I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion,” Justice Scalia said.
“That’s a possible way to run a political system. The Europeans run it that way,” Justice Scalia said. “And if the American people want to do it, I suppose they can enact that by statute. But to say that’s what the Constitution requires is utterly absurd.”

I cannot believe I know more than a supreme court justice in regards to the Constitution & the law, but that is the way of 'Murica' these days. I'll let a real forefather speak as to their true intentions regarding this country & religion.

"I contemplate with solemn reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
-Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802. Those Baptists praised and thanked Jefferson for that wall of separation!

Apparently there are waaaay too many ppl in America who are not familiar with how a wall works...unless it is attached to a border & in that case no wonder they are confused.

Last edited by Vantro (1/03/2016 9:53 am)