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William769

(55,144 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 12:02 AM Jun 2013

Scalia “sorry to say” the Constitution as a living, evolving document.

Addressing the North Carolina Bar Association in Asheville Friday, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia said — unsurprisingly — that judges are in error when they find rights to “homosexual conduct” or abortion in the Constitution.

In his speech, titled “Mullahs of the West: Judges as Moral Arbiters,” the ultraconservative Scalia said he believes in interpreting the Constitution as it would have been when it was adopted, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports. At that time, he said, abortion, assisted suicide, and homosexual acts “were criminal throughout the United States and remained so for several centuries.”

He was “sorry to say” that the Supreme Court, in the second half of the 20th century, began seeing the Constitution as a living, evolving document. “About nine terms ago, we held laws against private consensual sodomy, laws that existed in perfect conformity with the Constitution for over 200 years, to be impermissible,” he said.

He also said “unelected judges” are no more qualified than anyone else to make decisions about moral issues “for the entire society.”

http://www.advocate.com/society/law/2013/06/22/scalia-no-right-homosexual-conduct-constitution

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arcane1

(38,613 posts)
1. Back when it was "adopted", slavery was legal and women could not vote.
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 12:08 AM
Jun 2013

Asshole.

(Scalia, not you! )

William769

(55,144 posts)
3. I understood.
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 12:13 AM
Jun 2013

This just goes to show how out of touch Scalia is with reality.

I wonder if he literally interprets the Bible? If he did, he would be serving a life sentence in prison.

dawg

(10,622 posts)
5. So the 2nd amendment only covers muzzle loaders, huh Tony?
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 12:49 AM
Jun 2013

Somehow, I'll bet even he has a modern interpretation of that one.

Boomerproud

(7,951 posts)
6. I'm "sorry to say" that Antonin Scalia is a member ot the Supreme Court
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 12:51 AM
Jun 2013

and has any effect on anyone's life whatsoever.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
8. I think the point is that abortion is not a moral issue mainly...it's a right to privacy issue.
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 01:20 AM
Jun 2013

He's an idiot. To HIM, everything's a moral issue.

LuvNewcastle

(16,844 posts)
9. He certainly is preoccupied with homosexuality, isn't he?
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 01:41 AM
Jun 2013

So rather than see the Constitution as a living, evolving document, he decides to channel the dead founders and divine how they would decide cases. That's a much more sane and rational approach.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
10. and these are the people we are suppose to trust to say whether Citizens United or
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 01:48 AM
Jun 2013

PRISM are constitutional?

blogslut

(37,997 posts)
11. “unelected judges” are no more qualified than anyone else to make decisions about moral issues...
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 01:54 AM
Jun 2013

Well, except you, Antonin. You're just that special.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
12. Scalia is one to be bemoaning "errors in judgment" of "unelected judges"
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 02:03 AM
Jun 2013

given his own contorted interpretation of the 14th Amendment that stole the presidency from the true winner

pacalo

(24,721 posts)
13. As Robert Loggia told Glenn Close at the end of "Jagged Edge"...
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 02:26 AM
Jun 2013

"F*ck him. He was trash."





Scalia doesn't have the sense of fairness or moral fiber to be in the position he was given. He's trash.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
14. Did he have this talk with himself in the mirror?
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 02:29 AM
Jun 2013

Flip flop. Whatever is convenient for him at the moment. The man has no moral compass. He should not be sitting on the bench.

Initech

(100,060 posts)
15. I'm sorry to say that Scalia is still on SCOTUS.
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 03:17 AM
Jun 2013

Lifetime appointments are a dangerous thing, and Scalia and Thomas have proved that.

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