Scalia Compares Legal Protections For Gay People To Protections For Pedophiles

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia smiles during a college address in Chicago. Scalia said late Wednesday July 18, 2012, that he hasn't had a "falling out" with Chief J... FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia smiles during a college address in Chicago. Scalia said late Wednesday July 18, 2012, that he hasn't had a "falling out" with Chief Justice John Roberts over the Supreme Court's landmark 5-4 decision validating much of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul."There are clashes on legal questions but not personally," Scalia said of the court. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) MORE LESS
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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.

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  1. He argued that it instead should be up to the democratic process to determine which minority groups deserve legal protections.

    
    So I guess he'd be OK if a majority of citizens voted to deny LGBT persons the right to vote?
  2. Great analogy! Except for one involving a minor below the age of consent and the other…y’know…not.

    Asshole.

  3. 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.

  4. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    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.

  5. 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?

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