Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said it was not up to courts to grant LGBT legal protections and in the process, compared gay people to pedophiles.
Speaking at Georgetown University Law School Monday, Scalia said the Constitution guaranteed only religious and political protections, The New York Times reported, and that it was not up to judges to determine which other minority groups deserved legal protections.
“What minorities deserve protection?” he said rhetorically. “What? It’s up to me to identify deserving minorities?”
“What about pederasts?” he asked. “What about child abusers?”
“This is a deserving minority,” he went on, jokingly. “Nobody loves them.”
He argued that it instead should be up to the democratic process to determine which minority groups deserve legal protections.
He argued that it instead should be up to the democratic process to determine which minority groups deserve legal protections.
Great analogy! Except for one involving a minor below the age of consent and the other…y’know…not.
Asshole.
wow, and this piece of ambulatory human excrement fancies himself The Ultimate Constitutional Scholar Who Possesses The Truth.
Under his formulation, Brown v Board of Education would never have happened. Nor Loving v Virginia.
The only SC justice worse than him is Clarence Thomas.
Our ISIL Justice…This fat filth needs to be drummed off the Court. He’s a disgrace as he feeds his brand of hateful political meat to his dogs for an election season he’s already helped into the deep slime.
The most troubling thing is he conflates Pedophilia with homosexuality. He is supposed to be an educated man. It’s quite embarrassing. No one is arguing that Pedophiles have equal protection. Scalia changed the debate topic. What about a heterosexual pedophile do they get equal protection?