last monday
u_s_ supreme court justice antonin scalia obviously taking a vacation from
attending a tea party rally
or uh... going hunting with a
with dick cheney or or whatever it is
found himself defending his legal writings that some find offensive in
anti-gay
speaking at a princeton university
pockets kelly was asked by a gay student
why uh... he could
uh... why you quite slavs banning sodomy with those barring bestiality ameritech
well i don't think it's affective but i think it's uh... excuse me i don't think
it's necessary
but effective
scilly has said
what does that mean it's a back
do you think about like a uh...
but judge
what is the efficacy of doing that well what does it riles up the republican
base
having nothing to do legal reasoning
it's just good deborah a demagoguery his way setting
he said legislative bodies can ban what they believe to be a moral
the stock of course was given in his uh... it's promotion of his new book a
breeding law
and remember
the supreme court has agreed to take to separate cases
that challenge the federal defense of marriage uh... act this essentially says
that
unlike the marriages of straight people
if you have been legally married
under uh...
state law in any state of the nation
has same sex a marriage
other states are not obligated to recognize that
even though there are all the gated to recognize
opposite sex marriages
scalia said it's a form of argument i thought
you would have known which is called the reduction to the absurd
scalia told uh...
duncan jose the questionnaire of san francisco during the question and answer
period
if we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality
can we have it against murder
can we have against other things
do you think that we
alternately
uh...
make laws against murder
because of
just morality
i mean
could we let's let me why cant in that instance if that's the case
why couldn't the majority of people say it's immoral
for white people to marry black people
seems to me that school is saying that the legislators could use it
why couldn't we uh... right lives that's a and
to moral too
lend money
scalia said he's not equating sodomy with murder but drawing a parallel
between the bans on both is absurd
there are societal reasons why
not moral reasons
but in terms of the functioning of society
the state has is strong investment
in
outline murder
because would really be hard to do things that murder was legal
but there is no
st
interest
in outlying
marriage between
uh...
same sex couples in fact
to the extent that there are any arguments is the state's interests it's
in the states interest too
maintain
and is aside from the equal protection clause of the constitution
but is also interested is there's an interest in the state
to build the families
and build family units
so uh... school is of course not just an ass but in eighty many respects
definitively the most overrated thinker in the history of the supreme court now
i think most people most scholars a spring court now
uh... www agree with that assessment
it is people who like quit
who still think he's smart
you know it is a leader that guys go here
use those guys then
the great supreme court justice get the most singers any supreme court justice
uh...