Justice Scalia Defends Controversial Opinions About Gays At Princeton

Business Insider ^ | 12/11/2012 | Abby Rogers

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went to head to head Monday night with a gay student at Princeton University over the jurist's opinions about homosexuality.

Duncan Hosie took issue with Scalia equating laws banning sodomy to laws against bestiality and murder.

"It's a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the 'reduction to the absurd,'" Scalia said, according to the Associated Press. "If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"

The high court's most outspoken justice stressed he wasn't equating sodomy and murder, but rather the bans on both, the AP reported.

Scalia's views on homosexuality will be a huge source of debate in March, when the court is scheduled to hear arguments in the two gay marriage cases it recently agreed to take on.

[Impy]

Scalia needs to be cloned about 8 times.

[BillyBoy]

>> Scalia needs to be cloned about 8 times. <<

Well, I'd take 3 Scalias, 3 Alitos, and 3 Clarance Thomas', you know, so we have diversity on the bench. ;-)

Seriously though, it sucks that we can't trust Kennedy OR Roberts to vote right on gay marriage now, even though we technically have a 5-4 majority on the court (we couldn't even trust the majority when we had a 7-2 GOP majority on SCOTUS!)

I voted for Romney, but the tired old argument that we need to elect a GOP president to "stop activist judges" is one that has really been totally discredited by the number of judicial turds that GOP presidents have named in the last 30 years. I certainly did not pick Romney because I trusted him to name good judges.