{"id":132399,"date":"2012-11-29T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=132399"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:03:17","slug":"the-antonin-scalia-bot-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/11\/29\/the-antonin-scalia-bot-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Antonin Scalia Bot Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Article:<\/strong> Scalia says outlawing \u201chomosexual sodomy\u201d is a no-brainer<\/a> by Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon.<\/p>\n

The Text:<\/strong> Antonin Scalia isn\u2019t sweating it. At a book reading and lecture at Washington\u2019s American Enterprise Institute this week, the 76-year-old associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and self-described \u201ctextualist\u201d entertained the crowd by rattling off a litany of his top judicial no-brainers. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe death penalty? Give me a break. It\u2019s easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the Constitution prevented restrictions on abortion,\u201d he said. \u201cHomosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.\u201d And then he went to bed that night and slept like a baby.<\/p>\n

Scalia\u2019s breathtaking nonchalance doesn\u2019t come as any huge surprise to anyone familiar with the Roe v. Wade\u2013opposing, affirmative action\u2013blocking, death penalty\u2013loving Reagan appointee\u2019s strict interpretation of the Constitution as an immutable template of American justice. In the past, he\u2019s argued that \u201cthe risk of assessing evolving standards is that it is all too easy to believe that evolution has culminated in one\u2019s own views.\u201d He affirmed that belief at the Enterprise Institute Event, contrasting his style with those justices who would believe \u201c\u2018the Constitution means exactly what I think it ought to mean.\u2019 No kidding.\u201d And he reiterated that citizens who believe in change on such issues as abortion or the death penalty should take it up with their elected officials \u2014 or go ahead and try to change the Constitution, adding darkly, \u201cIt is very difficult to adopt a constitutional amendment.\u201d Surprisingly, he didn\u2019t finish this statement with a sinister BWAHAHA flourish, but it was implied.<\/p>\n

It takes a special kind of man to shrug off challenges to death penalty and abortion restrictions with nary a care in the world about how his interpretations of text might affect real human lives, and to use the phrase \u201chomosexual sodomy\u201d in 2012. Give him this, though: He\u2019s consistent, down to his language. In 2003, when the Supreme Court struck down Texas sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas, paving the way for a more widespread dissolution of similar statutes in other states, Scalia wrote the dissenting opinion. At the time, he argued that \u201cnowhere does the Court\u2019s opinion declare that homosexual sodomy is a \u2018fundamental right,\u2019\u201d adding, \u201cIt is clear from this that the Court has taken sides in the culture war, departing from its role of assuring, as neutral observer, that the democratic rules of engagement are observed. Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children\u2019s schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a Supreme Court justice, but sorry, who here was taking sides in a culture war? Who here thought \u201cevolution has culminated in one\u2019s own views\u201d? Because I\u2019m seeing a pot that couldn\u2019t begin to fathom how black he was. Still can\u2019t. And nine years ago, Scalia crowed in his dissent that \u201cwe need not fear judicial imposition of homosexual marriage,\u201d so one may wonder if today, underneath his swagger, he\u2019s just a teensy bit fearful about those homosexuals and their homosexual sodomy getting homosexual married all over the place. Oh, the times, they are evolving.<\/p>\n

Scalia may be a relic, not merely ferociously determined to refuse to modernize but equally committed to making it look easy. But you\u2019ve got to hand it to a man whose devotion to what he perceives as our country\u2019s founding values is so rock solid that he\u2019s content to be living fully in the 18th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Article: Scalia says outlawing \u201chomosexual sodomy\u201d is a no-brainer by Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon. The Text: Antonin Scalia isn\u2019t sweating it. At a book reading and lecture at Washington\u2019s American Enterprise Institute this week, the 76-year-old associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and self-described \u201ctextualist\u201d entertained the crowd by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Antonin Scalia Bot Strikes Again<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Outlawing homosexual sodomy? 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