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Antonin Scalia is unfit to serve: A justice who rejects science and the law for religion is of unsound mindThe justice claims to be an originalist, but his real loyalty is to religion and a phony man in the sky
JEFFREY TAYLER
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Senior interviewed Scalia for her magazine. She asked for his opinion of the pope. Scalia reacted with untoward prickliness, saying he would not run down the Vicar of Christ. Nothing surprising, really. A Reagan-era appointee, Scalia has long been known for his staunch Roman Catholicism.
But then the interview took a comic, almost sinister turn. Senior asked Scalia about homosexuality. Though professing to be not a hater of homosexuals at all, he said that he accepted Catholic teaching that its wrong. She pressed him to evaluate how such a position will look to people 50 years from now. He responded, I have never been custodian of my legacy. When Im dead and gone, Ill either be sublimely happy or terribly unhappy.
You believe in heaven and hell?
Oh, of course I do. Dont you believe in heaven and hell?
No, Senior answered, she did not. Scalia then proffered an entirely serious aside about Judas Iscariots current location in the hereafter, prompting an uncomfortable Senior to remark, Can we talk about your drafting process?
No. Here Scalias FDS recrudesced in full. He leaned toward her and whispered, surely with eyes ablaze, I even believe in the Devil hes a real person. Hey, cmon, thats standard Catholic doctrine! Every Catholic believes that.
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Much more at http://www.salon.com/2015/06/14/antonin_scalia_is_unfit_to_serve_a_justice_who_rejects_science_and_the_law_for_religion_is_of_unsound_mind/
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A justice who rejects science and the law for religion is of unsound mind (Original Post)
kristopher
Jun 2015
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Gothmog
(146,760 posts)1. Scalia has been showing signs of increasing senility for some time
ladjf
(17,320 posts)2. .... or that justice might simply be an out and out CROOK! nt
Takket
(21,850 posts)3. Agreed with this assessment!
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)4. It's no news that Scalia is a theocratic loon, but one can hardly complain
that he talks about Catholicism after the interviewer brought up his feelings about Frankie Photo-Op. If she wanted to talk about drafting processes, why ask him about religion first? Can't complain he answered. A better writer would have concentrated on the task, a remarkably easy one, of showing his opinions to be dribbling imbecility.
harrose
(380 posts)5. We Need To Take Back The Senate...
... and get a 2/3 majority so that we can impeach ALL of the Rethugs who sit on the bench. Thomas, Alito, Scalia and Roberts ALL have to go.
Iggo
(47,679 posts)6. "...is of unsound mind."