From Raw Story:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience at Princeton University on Monday that comparing same sex coupling to bestiality and murder is politically “effective.” According to the Associated Press (AP), Scalia was explaining to a question by a gay student, Duncan Hosie, who asked the conservative judge why he considers it necessary to draw parallels between laws banning LGBT sex and laws banning bestiality and murder.
“I don’t think it’s necessary, but I think it’s effective,” Scalia replied, adding that he believes legislative bodies are within their purview to ban acts that they believe are immoral.
Fine…
Catholic Church?
You are ooutttttaaaaa here!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seventh Circuit judge and University of Chicago lecturer Richard A. Posner criticized Reading Law in The New Republic, saying Scalia’s judicial philosophy was “incoherent” and ideologically blinkered.
Posner also pointed out that Scalia’s book and his judicial rulings cite cases that never actually established the things that Scalia and his co-author Bryan A. Garner claim they established.
A Republican con artist? Who’da thunk it?
(And, yes, before anyone says it: I know that Posner was also appointed by Reagan – but, if you noitice, no Republican has been intellectually honest enough to elevate him to the DC 9.)
“How many readers of Scalia and Garner’s massive tome,” [Posner] wondered, “will do what I have done — read the opinions cited in their footnotes and discover that in discussing the opinions they give distorted impressions of how judges actually interpret legal texts?”
What was the honest phrase that was attributed to Mitt Romney even though he was never honest enough to say it? Oh yeh: ‘I can lie faster than you can fact check.’
Advantage Judge Posner (though I suspect that Posner’s critique will be banned at the law schools at Ave Maria, Liberty and Regent Universities.)
December 11, 2012
Categories: Christianist hypocrisy, Draftdodging conservative warmongers, Dumbasses, Exterminationists, History, Lying Liars, Mitt the Flip, Racists, Republicans illegally suppressing the vote, Well-Professed Heterosexuals . . Author: Katrina Rose . Comments: 1 Comment