Scalia is biased against gays—but that’s not the real problem with his tactless homophobic screeds

[DonViejo]

Justice Antonin Scalia in Hot Water Again Over Homosexual Comments

Dec 12, 2012 4:45 AM EST

Of course Scalia is biased against gays—but that’s not the real problem with his tactless homophobic screeds, writes Paul Campos.

Back in 2004, Justice Antonin Scalia was participating in a panel discussion at NYU Law School when the subject of his famously scathing dissent in Lawrence v. Texas came up. One year earlier, the Supreme Court had ruled in Lawrence that the Constitution prohibits criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults, overturning recent precedent and saying, effectively, that gay men and lesbians couldn’t have their sex lives treated as criminal activity.

As he often is when the subject relates to gay rights, Scalia was furious, writing: “so imbued is the Court with the law profession’s anti-anti-homosexual culture, that it is seemingly unaware that the attitudes of that culture are not obviously ‘mainstream’; that in most States what the Court calls ‘discrimination’ against those who engage in homosexual acts is perfectly legal.”

When the time came for audience questions, a student named Eric Berndt stood up in the packed auditorium and pressed Scalia to explain his dissent, particularly his opinion as to whether it was constitutional for the government to peer into the bedrooms of consenting adults and punish them for what goes on in there. When Scalia did not answer to the student’s satisfaction, Berndt asked him, “Do you sodomize your wife?”

It was a breathtaking moment (Scalia simply glowered at Berndt without responding), and it triggered days of news coverage and weeks of hot-blooded recriminations at law schools across the country. After the shock of the question had worn off, some criticized Berndt for being so disrespectful of an august public official, but a larger number of students spoke out in his defense.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/12/justice-antonin-scalia-in-hot-water-again-over-homosexual-comments.html

[HockeyMom]

1. "Do you sodomize your wife?

They don't like to think about that one. One of the arguments in the Lawrence decision was also that these states only singled out GAY COUPLES and not Straight Couples with their Sodomy Laws. In fact some states which previous didn't specific genders, changed their laws to only target gay couples.

Sodomy is simply oral or anal sex. Any gender couples can engage in it, not just gays. To say that straight couples ONLY engage in missionary intercourse to make babies is just plain absurd.

[monmouth3]

2. The imagery of Scalia, in any of these "situations" is more than the mind could comprehend. I mean.

really..