A justice who rejects science and the law for religion is of unsound mind

[kristopher]

Antonin Scalia is unfit to serve: A justice who rejects science and the law for religion is of unsound mind
The justice claims to be an originalist, but his real loyalty is to religion and a phony man in the sky
JEFFREY TAYLER

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Senior interviewed Scalia for her magazine. She asked for his opinion of the pope. Scalia reacted with untoward prickliness, saying he would not “run down … the Vicar of Christ.” Nothing surprising, really. A Reagan-era appointee, Scalia has long been known for his staunch Roman Catholicism.

But then the interview took a comic, almost sinister turn. Senior asked Scalia about homosexuality. Though professing to be “not a hater of homosexuals at all,” he said that he accepted “Catholic teaching that it’s wrong.” She pressed him to evaluate how such a position will look to people 50 years from now. He responded, “I have never been custodian of my legacy. When I’m dead and gone, I’ll either be sublimely happy or terribly unhappy.”

“You believe in heaven and hell?”

“Oh, of course I do. Don’t you believe in heaven and hell?”

No, Senior answered, she did not. Scalia then proffered an entirely serious aside about Judas Iscariot’s current location in the hereafter, prompting an uncomfortable Senior to remark, “Can we talk about your drafting process?”

No. Here Scalia’s FDS recrudesced in full. He leaned toward her and whispered, surely with eyes ablaze, “I even believe in the Devil … he’s a real person. Hey, c’mon, that’s standard Catholic doctrine! Every Catholic believes that.”

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Much more at http://www.salon.com/2015/06/14/antonin_scalia_is_unfit_to_serve_a_justice_who_rejects_science_and_the_law_for_religion_is_of_unsound_mind/

[Gothmog]

1. Scalia has been showing signs of increasing senility for some time

[ladjf]

2. .... or that justice might simply be an out and out CROOK! nt

[Takket]

3. Agreed with this assessment!

[whatthehey]

4. It's no news that Scalia is a theocratic loon, but one can hardly complain

that he talks about Catholicism after the interviewer brought up his feelings about Frankie Photo-Op. If she wanted to talk about drafting processes, why ask him about religion first? Can't complain he answered. A better writer would have concentrated on the task, a remarkably easy one, of showing his opinions to be dribbling imbecility.

[harrose]

5. We Need To Take Back The Senate...

... and get a 2/3 majority so that we can impeach ALL of the Rethugs who sit on the bench. Thomas, Alito, Scalia and Roberts ALL have to go.

[Iggo]

6. "...is of unsound mind."