Re: Scalia is a star

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Urgh...

Yeah, the SCOTUS justices should conduct themselves with reserve.

This bit is especially troubling:
Scalia gave a revealing interview, published in this month's California Lawyer magazine, speaking against claims that the 14th Amendment protects women and gays from discrimination.
I can't see a good reasoning for this opinion. (I know Scalia's reasoning is that when the 14th was adopted, no one was thinking about protecting women and gays. It's just not a good reasoning.) Equal protection means that if there is no rational basis for treating different people in different ways when it comes to the application of the law, then it is unconstitutional to treat them differently. This is the principle. Then how it applies is going to evolve as society evolves since what we previously thought might have been "a rational basis" turns out not to be. Scalia would have the ignorance of past ages determine how we should live today. Brilliant! (he said, sarcastically.)
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. -- MLK

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