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(47,530 posts) Mon Feb 15, 2016, 05:38 PM Feb 2016

I think that it was the last show of Boston Legal

when the William Shatner character - a conservative, but not as rabid as today's Republicans, - proposed to the James Spader character, a liberal whose presentations before the courts often were aired here.

I am very rich, Shatner said, I don't have a family and I really don't want the government to possess all I own after I die. Thus, let us get married and you will inherit. You can spend it on your liberal causes.

They were in upstate New York, I think, or, perhaps Vermont, when they met "Scalia" on a hunting trip. Both of them have met him before and they convinced him to marry them. He did, just to get rid of them both.

I Wonder whether he'd ever commented on this..

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I think that it was the last show of Boston Legal (Original Post) question everything Feb 2016 OP

That was a great episode. djean111 Feb 2016 #1

As an Opus Dei Catholic, in real life I doubt if he would have married them even Cleita Feb 2016 #2

Of course. And I don't know that he had the power vested to marry anyone in that state question everything Feb 2016 #3

Oh, sure it was. I didn't mean to be a wet blanket about it. eom Cleita Feb 2016 #4

Found at least a picture question everything Feb 2016 #5

djean111

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1. That was a great episode.

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Mon Feb 15, 2016, 05:41 PM

Feb 2016

Logo or Ovation has just started showing Boston Legal reruns. I love that show. Never could get into any of the other legal shows.

Cleita

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2. As an Opus Dei Catholic, in real life I doubt if he would have married them even

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Mon Feb 15, 2016, 05:52 PM

Feb 2016

to get rid of them.

question everything

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3. Of course. And I don't know that he had the power vested to marry anyone in that state

Reply to Cleita (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 05:55 PM

Feb 2016

still was fun.

Cleita

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4. Oh, sure it was. I didn't mean to be a wet blanket about it. eom

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Mon Feb 15, 2016, 06:02 PM

Feb 2016

question everything

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5. Found at least a picture

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 06:13 PM

Feb 2016

http://toobworld.blogspot.com/2009/03/as-seen-on-tv-antonin-scalia.html

Thursday, March 26, 2009
AS SEEN ON TV: ANTONIN SCALIA
In a recent interview with a gay news web site, Rep. Barney Frank labeled Antonin Scalia as a "homophobe" because the Supreme Court Justice believes that cases involving gay rights and abortion should not come before judges. And he voted against the Court's 2003 decision which struck down state laws banning consensual sodomy.

But in Toobworld, Antonin Scalia has shown that his objections don't outweigh his observance of the law. If two men came before him in a state where it was legal to marry and they loved each other, then Scalia would preside over that union - provided they had the proper paperwork.

And that's just what he did while he was on a fishing vacation; he officiated over the wedding of Denny Crane and Alan Shore, "As Seen On TV" in the series final of 'Boston Legal'.....

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