TimDaddy
Oct 24, 2003, 12:48 PM
by ANNE GEARAN
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ridiculed his court's recent ruling legalizing gay sex, telling an audience of conservative activists Thursday that the ruling ignores the Constitution in favor of a modern, liberal sensibility.
The ruling, Scalia said, ``held to be a constitutional right what had been a criminal offense at the time of the founding and for nearly 200 years thereafter.''
Scalia adopted a mocking tone to read from the court's June ruling that struck down state antisodomy laws in Texas and elsewhere.
Scalia wrote a bitter dissent in the gay sex case that was longer than the ruling itself.
On Thursday, Scalia said judges, including his colleagues on the Supreme Court, throw over the original meaning of the Constitution when it suits them.
``Most of today's experts on the Constitution think the document written in Philadelphia in 1787 was simply an early attempt at the construction of what is called a liberal political order,'' Scalia told a gathering of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
``All that the person interpreting or applying that document has to do is to read up on the latest academic understanding of liberal political theory and interpolate these constitutional understandings into the constitutional text.''
Scalia is a hero of conservatives who favor a strict adherence to the actual text of the Constitution.
The 50-year-old Intercollegiate Studies Institute is a private conservative education organization that sponsors lectures and conferences and scholarships. The group says its mission is to, ``enhance the rising generation's knowledge of our nation's founding principles - limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise and Judeo-Christian moral standards.''
ISI draws much of its funding from conservative foundations, including three controlled by or associated with billionaire philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife, a vehement critic of former President Clinton.
This just makes me sick. One of the reason I consider myself a conservative, and the reason I vote Republican more often than not, is because I don't like the government telling me how to live my life and take care of myself. Who the hell do these people think they are? We've got people trying sneak weapons into our country to kill us with, we've got at least one nation trying hard to develope a nuke to blow us off the map, and we've got China, who, if I remember correctly admits to having sixteen nuclear missiles pointed directly at us "just in case". So, our government, who is sworn to protect us, needs to be telling adults what they can and cannot do in their own bedrooms? Is anal sex really an issue? I have anal sex with my wife on occasion, am I going to be the next target? I am voting for a democrat for the governor of KY this year, and if moderates like McCain and even Bush can't get these right-wingers under control, then the national republicans may have lost me as a voter.
:mad:
:D But, I gota go! I just got a call from independent candidate for KY Attorney Gerneral Gatewood Galbraith. I have to go to his office real quick and get a few more campaign items to pass out!! W00--H00!! Go Independents!! Make America free again!!
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ridiculed his court's recent ruling legalizing gay sex, telling an audience of conservative activists Thursday that the ruling ignores the Constitution in favor of a modern, liberal sensibility.
The ruling, Scalia said, ``held to be a constitutional right what had been a criminal offense at the time of the founding and for nearly 200 years thereafter.''
Scalia adopted a mocking tone to read from the court's June ruling that struck down state antisodomy laws in Texas and elsewhere.
Scalia wrote a bitter dissent in the gay sex case that was longer than the ruling itself.
On Thursday, Scalia said judges, including his colleagues on the Supreme Court, throw over the original meaning of the Constitution when it suits them.
``Most of today's experts on the Constitution think the document written in Philadelphia in 1787 was simply an early attempt at the construction of what is called a liberal political order,'' Scalia told a gathering of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
``All that the person interpreting or applying that document has to do is to read up on the latest academic understanding of liberal political theory and interpolate these constitutional understandings into the constitutional text.''
Scalia is a hero of conservatives who favor a strict adherence to the actual text of the Constitution.
The 50-year-old Intercollegiate Studies Institute is a private conservative education organization that sponsors lectures and conferences and scholarships. The group says its mission is to, ``enhance the rising generation's knowledge of our nation's founding principles - limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise and Judeo-Christian moral standards.''
ISI draws much of its funding from conservative foundations, including three controlled by or associated with billionaire philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife, a vehement critic of former President Clinton.
This just makes me sick. One of the reason I consider myself a conservative, and the reason I vote Republican more often than not, is because I don't like the government telling me how to live my life and take care of myself. Who the hell do these people think they are? We've got people trying sneak weapons into our country to kill us with, we've got at least one nation trying hard to develope a nuke to blow us off the map, and we've got China, who, if I remember correctly admits to having sixteen nuclear missiles pointed directly at us "just in case". So, our government, who is sworn to protect us, needs to be telling adults what they can and cannot do in their own bedrooms? Is anal sex really an issue? I have anal sex with my wife on occasion, am I going to be the next target? I am voting for a democrat for the governor of KY this year, and if moderates like McCain and even Bush can't get these right-wingers under control, then the national republicans may have lost me as a voter.
:mad:
:D But, I gota go! I just got a call from independent candidate for KY Attorney Gerneral Gatewood Galbraith. I have to go to his office real quick and get a few more campaign items to pass out!! W00--H00!! Go Independents!! Make America free again!!
