Implacable foe of all things LGBTQ, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away today at a Texas ranch at the age of 79, opening up an epic election year clash over his replacement between President Obama and the U.S. Senate’s conservative majority.
The possibility that Scalia’s seat could go vacant until after the November election is one scenario as Obama is now presented with an opportunity to shift the conservative majority to five-to-four liberal one, a legacy that could help cement his reputation as a gay rights champion.
Perhaps no other American legal and political figured has been so reviled in LGBTQ-friendly circles. Know for his support for arcane sodomy laws in Lawrence V. Texas and his opposition to marriage freedom in Obergefell v Hodges, he never missed an opportunity to lambast the emerging support for gay people in America.
The cause of death has not been announced. Scalia was know for his outgoing social life and intellectual vigor, even though he increasingly found himself on the fringes of the legal circles he ran in.
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Billy Budd
Better dead than alive. Rest in distress.
crowebobby
I suppose I should feel some kind of sympathy since I’ll be 79 next month, but I don’t.
Donald MacMelville
Yeah! sympathy to his family, but he was a nasty old man.
KerryB
Ding, dong, the witch is dead. One less bestiality obsessed wing nut on the Supreme Court.
Jay A. Scaramazzo
Brian
Condolences to Mr Scalia’s family.
On his decisions as Supreme Court Justice, he was incorrigibly opposed to same-sex rights, even the most basic right of being free from government intrusion in the bedroom. At times, I thought he followed the Vatican. He was a Catholic whose Biblical beliefs apparently influenced his decisions even when those beliefs were based on intrusive dictates.
On the one hand, he claimed to be all for freedom of the individual. On the other, he was all for regulating and controlling private bedroom activity between consenting adults. Go figure.
Da'Vi Perez
Slow news day???
Alexis Barros
Awesome!!
Dennis Gordon
Sad he passed, however, he really hated us.
Damien Malachi
Bryguyf69
IS THIS REAL? I’m on several news feeds, i.e. NY Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc, and have not gotten any alerts about Scalia’s death. Nor did I see anything about it on the news this morning. I don’t have time to do a websearch right now but until I hear confirmation, I’m skeptical. Scalia was always known to be rather healthy and energetic.
Dennis Addy
William Mann
The claws come out. Sad on the day of his death
onthemark
GREAT news! And if the Republicans try to block an appointment all the way to November, they’ll pay for it, the voters will think that’s petty and vile.
@Bryguyf69: Front page of NYT right now.
Susan Denison
Sad for his family but please let us get a better Justice in his place.
David Scrivens
My grandpa always said if you were an SOB while you lived, then nothing changes just because you passed on.
Realitycheck
Antonin, may the fictional God you loved so much trow you in hell for your bigotry and anti gay hatred.
Claude Courval
Aw shucks, PITY!
Aromaeus
🙂
Rico A Saxton
Scott McIntosh
Don’t get sentimental, he was a miserable old ratbag – and why feel sorry for his family? they may be glad themiserable old bully is dead too
Aarmèse DeLavoie Dit Laventure
Could not be happier. Rot pig in hell.
Damon Robbins
Sorry to hear of his passing.Sometimes the only cure for homophobic hatred is death.
esemple
All bigots die. Respect was not earned. Legacy of hate.
joebatch
@William Mann, ‘Claws come out,my a&&!! This man was as bigoted and hateful towards gays as they come so because he died does not mean all is forgiven or forgotten. Nor does his dying mean that he should be made a saint because he died.
Will L
@Bryguyf69: It was probably taking them a while to come up with something nice to say about the guy.
Martin Talbot
Hopefully his replacement is LGBTIQ friendly !
Martin Talbot
Voting is more important now ! The next president will probably appoint the replacement !
dgsea06
How can I celebrate the comment “Ding Dong, the witch is dead,Which old witch, the wicked witch, ding dong, the Wicked Witch is Dead” Any more than I can now?
Sure, his family “mourns” They get all is MONEY!
He was an asshole of the first order. Arrogant, greedy, self-absorbed enough to think of himself as, well, um, y,know important.
He WAS none of the good, he WAS all of the BAD!
I hope he spends all eternity in hell for all the BAD he, and his family have done to the people of this country.
Do Not Rest in Peace,
Love Hell!
Rob91316
To paraphrase the always faboo Bette Davis, “You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Antonin Scalia is dead. Good.”
dgsea06
Just as an addendum, Love the Hell you helped create for millions of Americans. Men, women and children.
TampaZeke
Well, we know he didn’t die of a heart attack.
I’m not going to celebrate his death, because I’m not as hateful and bitter as he was, but I’m also not going to mourn the loss.
Bryguyf69
@Will L: Haha … sadly, I know plenty of people who loved him and his brutish bullying approach to jurisprudence. I personally hated him. Yes, I said, “hated.”
orjeffy
RIH Scalia
Christopher Hayward
Thank god he is dead, he was a nightmare left over from Ronald Reagan.
Michael1500
I’m certainly not going to lie to myself and everybody else that I’m unhappy about his passing. After 50+ years in the closet, I’m done lying. I’m also a lawyer—- this man bent the hell out of the law to conform it to his personal liking.
Bryguyf69
@onthemark: Wow, the alerts are now all coming simultaneously, including one from the NY Times. CBS Evening News is leading with the story. It’s such a late breaker that their Legal Correspondent, Jan Crawford, looks rather haggard and has no makeup on. And amazingly, Scalia’s Wikipedia is already updated with his death (for those who care, I’m a Wikipedia editor/contributor to LGBT entries, as well as various scientific topics).
DamianHart
Some applicable quotes (paraphrased from my sketchy memory):
“Truly horrible people forfeit any consideration in death.”
“We should only speak nice of the dead. He’s dead. That’s nice.”
dgsea06
Who is the sitting Attorney General of the United States of America?
Whom do you think or imagine Pesident Obama may nominate to the Supreme Court?
Um, her last name is Rice, and it ain’t Condoleeza.
President Obama has the oppotunity to nominate the first Black Woman Lawyer and Attorney General of the US to the Supreme Court.
Sorry, she probably isn’t a lesbian, (nor Transgenderd) nor an idealogue. (The Republican Senate shall fill us all in on all the details, real or imagined, after hundreds of “hearings” upon her, um. viability to serve upon the court that Scalita just vacated.)
I wish it would be instructive and fun. It shall not be either or the other. It shall be the Repub smear of anyone not white and rich, and, by the way a man…(until…the inevitable closet case makes me ahasmed to be gay.)
Which I Am Not!
Bryguyf69
I normally don’t celebrate a person’s death but I’ll make an exception for Scalia. His brutish bullying approach to jurisprudence was an embarrassment to the Court. As were his ethical lapses. For example, he refused to recuse himself from a 2004 case involving Vice President Dick Cheney — despite having gone hunting with Cheney just weeks before. Jurors are rejected if they know the accused yet Scalia saw no conflict of interest! In his mind, it was okay to adjudicate the trial of a friend and he mocked those who thought otherwise.
Scalia also never passed an opportunity to insult his colleagues and anyone who disagreed with him was mocked and dismissed as nonsensical. Despite wide praise for his intellect, I personally have never seen it in interviews. He never struck me as especially thoughtful or expansive. The SCOTUS and country is better off without him. Let’s hope Obama gets to select his replacement. Or Clinton, or even Sanders (sorry, I’m a Clinton supporter although I’d love to see who a radical idealogue like Sanders would choose for the SCOTUS).
rand503
Cause of Death: Gay marriage in all 50 states.
I think Obergefell raised his blood pressure permanently.
Eric Kamm
Game changer! This is why we DEMs MUST – MUST – MUST VOTE in November, for either Hillary or Bernie. No exceptions.
Bryguyf69
@dgsea06 wrote: “Who is the sitting Attorney General of the United States of America? Whom do you think or imagine Pesident Obama may nominate to the Supreme Court? Um, her last name is Rice, and it ain’t Condoleeza.”
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I think you’ve confused the Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, with former UN ambassador and current Security adviser, Susan Rice. Yes, I know, all Black women look alike (just kidding).
As a New Yorker, I’ve been a big fan of Lynch. Especially her crystalline and mellifluous voice and eloquence. However, she’s never been a judge (I don’t know if that’s a requirement) and has no background in Constitutional law. The Senate would never pass her.
As for Susan Rice, she has no legal background. Her doctorate was in African studies, which will not help her on the SCOTUS.
John Clerkin-Whitcomb
Please god tell me he was found in bed with an underaged black male prostitute…..
BigG
One less hateful person on the planet is always great news! Happy Valentine’s everyone!
dgsea06
@Bryguyf69:
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Scalia was an “intellectual”?, he had intellect? You brought up the possibility of a discussion upon “intellect”.
Fun topic, eh? (And I’m not even Canadian, although I love my Canadians, and I mean it!)
If you wish, e-mail me at [email protected]. Be prepared to be scanned by NORTON and all that jazz.
Stached1
Condolences to his family and friends.
I am not surprised that this site and a lot of commentators are speaking ill of him and celebrating his death just after he died.
NateOcean
The fires of hell are burning brighter tonight.
onthemark
@Bryguyf69: “she’s never been a judge (I don’t know if that’s a requirement)”
Not a requirement at all. It used to be pretty common to appoint politicians to the court – Earl Warren for instance had been governor of Calif. – but in recent decades that hasn’t happened.
Rick
Thank god for small favors.
Jeff Vernaus
Thank GOD! 😉
Glücklich
Is “Texas Ranch” code for Thai Lady Boy?
Bye Scalia!
dgsea06
@Bryguyf69:
Hey, do not tell me that all black wowen look alike. Do not tel me all black men look alike. I do not like what you look like. Do you?
Bryguyf69
@Stached1 wrote: “I am not surprised that this site and a lot of commentators are speaking ill of him and celebrating his death just after he died.”
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I have absolutely no problems with that. First, we’re not doing it in front of his loved one’s faces. Nor are we picketing his funeral a la Westboro. This is a semi-private forum targeted toward gay-friendly individuals. Second, what harm are you accusing us of doing? Will our comments affect his acension to heaven (or descent to hell)? Will they affect his funeral? Any insurance payouts? His legacy? Anything?
Finally, these catty posts are very much in the spirit of Scalia’s biting insults of his co-Justices whenever he rants out a dissent. Contrast them with those of the other Conservatives, especially the laconic Thomas. Fact is, he has harmed, and would have continued to harm, the LGBT community. As such, his death should be celebrated. No one wished for a painful death, just the cessation of his potential to do further harm. So what’s wrong with that?
Stache
@Stached1: I’m sure a closet case such as yourself worshiped him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4
martinbakman
@Brian: His son is involved with The Catholic church’s version of an ex-gay ministry. Go figure.
Bryguyf69
@dgsea06: What the hell are you talking about…?
Kangol
Condolences to his family and the Court. He did all he could to maintain the oppression of gay people, black people, other people of color, women, etc. All in the name of “originalist” and allegedly Christian principles.
Stache
As Bette Davis said when told not to speak ill of the dead, “just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed.”
A bigoted asshole right to the very end. He’s dead. Good.
Bryguyf69
@Stached1 wrote: “I am not surprised that this site and a lot of commentators are speaking ill of him and celebrating his death just after he died.”
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How exactly are our posts harming him, his death or his family? On the other hand, Scalia had a significant negative effect on LGBTs, their families — and yes, even gay deaths. See US v Windsor, the 2013 SCOTUS case that helped legalize gay marriage. So why exactly shouldn’t celebrate his death? Scalia never hinted at retiring so life would’ve meant further harm to LGBTs and other liberal/progressive causes.
Stache
@martinbakman: Maybe now he’ll be free to live an authentic life now that he’s not not living under daddies shadow.
NoCagada
@William Mann: He LIVED his days with his claws out…and in OUR faces.
kevininbuffalo
Scalia was an SOB, that’s all I’ll say about him. Prepare yourself for one hell of a battle when Obama sends his nominee’s name to the Senate for confirmation. The Pubbies will fight any name he sends until after the election. I’m a Sanders man. I’ve said I wouldn’t vote for Hilary if she got the nomination. Tonight I changed my mind, come hell or high water we have to get a Democrat in the White House. I’m still for Bernie, but I’ll vote for whoever the Democratic nominee is.
NoCagada
@Bryguyf69: You all mean that Scalia’s family reads QUEERTY?!?!?
I better dust!
Willard Stubbs
Biden!
Steve Brittle
https://youtu.be/PHQLQ1Rc_Js
Juanjo
I realize and understand why so many dislike Justice Scalia especially based upon his views regarding gay folks. As an attorney for over 30 years I have have had a long love/hate relationship with Justice Scalia. He was a man who held to a very strict judicial viewpoint regardless of whether it pissed off the left or the right. He wrote a decision a couple of years ago which really pissed off the law and order dweebs when he beat their twisted interpretation of probable cause into tiny little bits of flotsam. He did the same with regard to the poutine violations of the 4th Amendment in cases involving alleged DUI’s saying that the police must obtain a warrant to draw blood without consent.
His opposition to gay rights including same sex marriage was based upon his belief that sexual issues were not protected by any right to privacy found in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. He was consistent in applying his judicial view wherever he looked. He was not a hypocrite about these things.
According to Justice Ginsburg he was a good friend and a wonderful human being off the bench. Others have said the same. I offer my condolences to his family and friends upon his passing. But as a lawyer and a US citizen I am not going to mourn his no longer being on the bench.
jorgecruz
I hope we find out that he was secretly a huge pig bottom and a cum dump.
Mark Pointon
May he burn on the fires of hell for all eternity – with how fat he was it should be a LONG time…
Aromaeus
@John Clerkin-Whitcomb: why would you wish for that…
ProfessorMoriarty
@Juanjo: You, sir, are far more magnanimous than I am able to be tonight. Scalia was an evil, twisted fiend and I hope he suffered mightily before shuffling off this mortal coil. And if there really is a Heaven and Hell, I hope that God shows Scalia all the mercy and grace that rotten bastard showed LGBT Americans while he was alive.
dwbyers1960
Fuck all of you….talk about selfish assholes! I pray Obama dies in office and all you faggots go to Hell, where you belong!
Bryguyf69
@dwbyers1960 ranted:
— “Fuck all of you….”
I’m sure you want to fuck all of us, but unlike you, we have standards. Try the nearest truck stop if you’re really that horny and desperate..
— “talk about selfish assholes!”
Actually, most of our assholes are rather generous. Some can even handle two men simultaneously. But generous does not mean lacking standards. So again, take your horny desperation elsewhere.
— “I pray Obama dies in office and all you faggots go to Hell, where you belong!”
Hmmmm … let’s see, you’re wishing death on a DEMOCRATICALLY elected president who won the POPULAR vote TWICE. Yet you criticize us for hating a Justice that was chosen and not elected. Yet we’re the selfish ones?
I’m willing to bet that Obama won’t die in office. If so, either your god ignored you or he/she/it doesn’t exist. THINK about it, moron.
Bryguyf69
@Alistair Wiseman wrote: “NO ONE HATES LIKE A LIBERAL”
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Sure we hate, but our hatred is usually reactionary, rational and based on tangible facts. For example, I hate the Westboro Baptist Church, ISIS and gaybashers. Compare that with Conservative hatred, i.e. homophobia. It’s not a reaction to anything gays have done but rather some irrational, unproven and ultimately unprovable religious mumbo-jumbo. Worse, their hatred, phobia, discrimination, etc persist even if scientific evidence says otherwise. Furthermore, we liberals hate people for what they DO, not who they ARE.
Finally … care to compare the crimes of liberals against conservatives vs conservatives against liberals? When was the last time a liberal assaulted a conservative? When was the last time a liberal lynched a conservative? Care to compare notes? Care to look at the history of Civil Rights in America? Care to examine the Justice Dept’s data on hate crimes? THINK about it.
Dakotahgeo
There IS a God and God answers prayer! Thank you, St. Judicious! Rest in peace, Antonin!
ProfessorMoriarty
@dwbyers1960: Sorry sweetie, but your hero is deader than disco. And if Senate Republicans delay and block Obama’s nominee, American voters will see right through that tactic, which will guarantee the Democratic candidate for President will win in a 49 state landslide (I will concede that Texas is a permanently lost cause!)
Face it, you acne-infested homophobic piles of feces:
YOU LOST.
WE WON.
DROP DEAD.
Alistair Wiseman
I’ve said it for years and today proves no exception:
NO ONE HATES LIKE A LIBERAL
Mike Johnson
would you please do a story on Republican Ronald Reagan and remind people that because he did not give funding for AIDS and HIV research that is why the Disney’s flourished and also he made it hard to get medications and everything whether you’re Democratic or Republican remember all across the board gay straight or bi the reason why the cure is taking so long and people gotten sick was because Ronald Reagan blocked everything please do a story on that continuously so these people realize what is at jeopardy cause and effect thank you
tjr101
@dwbyers1960: Now that you’ve got that off your chest why don’t you just run back to your basement and continue jacking off to picks of Scalia and Saint Ronnie. HOMOCON.
tjr101
It looks like Obama will nominate a minority in Sri Srinivasan. Let’s watch the GOP congress in full obstructionism over the coming months, good fodder for the general elections.
Daniel-Reader
Perhaps his gay son will come out now?
Xzamilio
@dwbyers1960: Well, there’s no god, so joke’s on you.
Transiteer
Best news I’ve had all day. God’s way of taking out the hateful and judgmental. Needs to pick up the pace though . . . . . we’re up our nose hair in hateful Christians and assorted freaks misquoting their holy book to undo God’s work.
Bobby Chandler
There was more in his CLOSET than his CLOTHES!
chris_clb614
Keep in mind that, according to some (GOP presidential candidates) the decision to appoint and confirm Scalia’s replacement should be delayed. What should also be kept in mind is that 24 seats up for grabs in the Senate are currently republican held. If Scalia’s replacement doesn’t come before this November, that could be an issue.
1EqualityUSA
I suppose Scalia can’t vote against Unions (now) in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, another political move to harm the Democrats.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/the-end-of-public-employee-unions/385690/
Bryguyf69
@tjr101: That’s good news for LGBTs. Sri Srinivasan has argued over 20 cases before the SCOTUS, including part of Obama’s case against The Defense of Marriage Act. He was approved for the US Circuit Court by a vote of 97-0, which included Yes votes by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
Goforit
I really feel sad…..for feeling so happy.
Glücklich
@Xzamilio:
The joke’s between @dwbyers1960: ‘s pimpled, chafed thighs.
Glücklich
@Alistair Wiseman:
We give as good as we get.
I assume it’s the cold weather in the back half of the country keeping you and fellow looney-toon poster Brian from consumating your love. While you wait to split that fire plug-sized double-headed dildo with him – the mandingo model, right? – you could always shove a live wire up your ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0XIQ1lNWoo
GG
VOTE!
youarekiddingme
@Da’Vi Perez: Pity, you’re that dense! You should know more about the LGBTQ Community and issues facing our rights than to say, “Slow news day…”
youarekiddingme
@Da’Vi Perez: It’s a pity, you’re that dense! You should know more about the LGBTQ Community and issues facing our rights than to say, “Slow news day…”
Stached1
@Stache: That’s nice crazy poz tweaker troll. I am not closeted, and I never worshiped him or supported him or the republican party.
GG
His death rattle sounded a lot like “argle bargle.” Funny that.
youarekiddingme
@Alistair Wiseman: …And you stink like shit Alistair!!!
Answer the question ALISTAIR….WHO ARE YOU VOTING FOR??? WHICH REPUBLICAN???
Now that your buddy Justice Scalia passed away, who do you want appointed to the Supreme Court? Who’s YOUR CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLICAN PICK? Hummmmmm???
Answer Alistair!!!
youarekiddingme
@Glücklich: LMFAO!!!
rythmfan
In the (alleged) immortal words of Vivian Vance: “Champagne for everyone!”
dgsea06
@dwbyers1960: Oh, You are too kind!
1EqualityUSA
Princeton’s Robert P. George, father of NOM, would love to push his version of religion onto the country through laws. May Robbie never don the robe…
Atrius
May he rot in the hell he believed existed.
Large Marge
Ding Dong, the Wicked Witch is DEAD!
DCguy
Now watch, all the Log Cabiners will start attacking LGBTs, saying things like : “Oh, just because he disagreed with you politically it still doesn’t change the fact that a man is dead, and he was a brilliant, blah blah blah, and his family blah blah blah, and gays are bullies for not being all warm and fuzzy about him and blah blah blah. Don’t you love how they call our right to live as full people a “Political Opinion”?
While the Log Cabiners are talking about how we should cry and be sensitive to Scalia I wonder if they will give a thought to the thousands of LGBTs who committed suicide or were murdered due to the hateful bigotry that this man advocated and pushed upon the nation.
JessPH
They say that you should only say something good about dead people. Scalia is dead.
Good.
Dakotahgeo
@Rob91316: LOLOL… Good and dead! (I jus’ had to throw that in!) Yes, Scalia is dead! GOOD! NICE!
NateOcean
Scalia is survived by Clarence Thomas, his lap-dog of twenty-five years.
Glücklich
@JessPH:
Priceless. I love it.
Bauhaus
Good riddance.
Kangol
@Alistair Wiseman: Except conservatives, whose hate-filled anti-gay vileness you’re defending again. One on this very thread wished harm to our President. You conveniently glossed right over that.
Do you hate yourself that badly that you would defend homophobes and anti-gay fanatics and the party that harbors them, or what is your problem?
Michael Lepper
Stache
@Stached1: Ha. When you take up someone’s elses screen name that you’re obsessed with or when this site bans your last troll name from even being mentioned ie Jac*b23. I’d say it’s a good bet that you’re real troll.
Stache
@Stached1: You’re like Candy man to this site. They don’t want your last name mentioned ever again. Any comment with Jac*b23 will be deleted. Lol
Stache
Too bad they don’t ban IP addresses. That would fix allot of this trolling nonsense.
Stached1
@Stache: You need to stop using so much meth. I use this screen name since I have a moustache, and I’m not obsessed with you since you’re nobody. I have no idea who the other people who you’re going about in your paranoid troll ramblings are.
Stache
@Stached1: You are such a LIAR. Funny how all your commenting history from Jac*b23 is exactly the same as Stached1. Common denominator is both of your troll names are obsessed with me. Get a life loser.
Stache
@Stached1: Interesting how the very day you signed up with your new screen name you went on the attack even though I said nothing to you. The only question I have is why are you so obsessed with me Jac*b23/Stached1? What the hell did I do to you?
Stached1 commented on Meth Use Is Rising Among NYC Gays…Again.
@Stache: I’m not surprised that a troll like you would glamorize and promote meth use; but you’re a tweaker/ex tweaker and have brain damage and HIV.
Stache
Sorry everyone for taking away from the subject. I’m just tired of this troll attacking me. Sometimes he’ll write page long manifestos of hate towards me. I just don’t get it. Normally I would love to have someone so obsessed with me but it’s just getting old now.
This guy is truly insane.
Stached1
@Stache: If you want to see someone truly insane look at yourself and read your own posts. I personally do not post on this site under other names but you certainly do. 😉 But your HIV meds have caused you to become paranoid and have dementia.
youarekiddingme
@Stached1: Seriously? You can say what you wish back and forth to each other (god knows I’ve been in my share of arguments), but the “crack” about HIV meds is total BULLSHIT and you should know better!!
I lost WAY too many friends during that pandemic and still know way too many good people who are on meds right now to have you “use” that as a derogatory slur against them.
That is as bad as a straight person calling you a queer or a fag or a homo as a derogatory term…Grow up!
Bryguyf69
@Juanjo: You’re being too generous. If you really think that Scalia was consistent and never hypocritical, do a websearch on “Scalia hypocrite.” I have personally seen inconsistencies in interview. For example. he claims to not support same-sex marriage because it’s not explicitly stated in the Constitution. Yet he refused to use the same logic when asked if he supported the Loving decision that legalized interracial marriage. His reaction was basically, well that was a different case at a different time. Huh? How does that explain away the fact that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly allow interracial marriage? Using Scalia’s philosophy of original intent — an intent forged when Blacks weren’t even seen as fully human — why can’t states also ban miscegeny? WHy should the states have the ability to ban gay marriage but not interracial marriage?
So no, I am not as impressed with Scalia’s supposed consistency as you are. To paraphrase the Majority’s opinion in Lawrence v Texas, Scalia’s decisions are based on homophobic “animus” as much as it is in jurisprudence.
Bryguyf69
@Stached1 wrote: “But your HIV meds have caused you to become paranoid and have dementia.”
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That was a disgusting low blow. It makes you look desperate and unable to argue the real topic. As someone who has actually worked in HIV Neurology, I see no manifestations of HIV dementia in his posts. So grow up and focus on the facts.
Bryguyf69
@NateOcean: Yes, Tomas almost always voted with Scalis, but at least he was a quiet lapdog. You never heard the acerbic insulting comments from Thomas that were a Scalia trademark. In fact, Thomas hardly spoke at all during hearings.
For better or worse, Thomas did acknowledge that sodomy laws were “uncommonly silly” in Lawrence V Texas. But of course, he still voted with Scalia, saying that nothing in the Constitution explicitly protects sodomy. I can’t imagine Scalia ever saying that sodomy laws were/are silly.
1EqualityUSA
If I were the owner of that ranch, a smoldering, ongoing, ever-burning cauldron of sage would be burning 24 hours a day.
DCguy
Anybody talking about how “Consistent” Scalia was needs to stop reading the FOX News talking points.
He supposedly was a “Strict Constitutionalist” and that the words of the Constitution needed to be followed to the letter.
Oooops, until he said that the 2nd Amendment didn’t really mean Militia or Well Regulated.
dutchman67
My Bucket List now includes pissing on Scalia’s grave, and by God, I will. Reagan, Hoover, McCarthy and now this Fascist Bastard. When they bury The Idiot Bush, he goes on the list.
FYI, the practice of pissing on your enemies and their Corporate stand ins, started on Columbus Day in San Francisco in 1973. After the parade, hundreds of gays pissed on the revolving doors of the Bank of America. It is still done; every Columbus Day.