March 25, 2005

Antonin Scalia - The Hypocrite

I'm in the middle of reading this article in The New Yorker about SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia. It doesn't look like the article is online, so I can't refer you to it, but here's an interview with the author. I haven't read that yet.

While I don't agree with him, I almost could respect him in his originalist philosophy. If he were consistent about it. He doesn't like to deal with what a law means, only what it says. Same thing with the Constitution. If he were pure in practicing what he preaches, he could be one of those people I respectfully disagree with.

But he throws all that out the window when it comes to religion.

Scalia quoted Justice William Douglas, who said that American institutions "presuppose the existence of a Supreme Being."

But nowhere in the Constitution is God or a Supreme Being mentioned.

So where's he get this? From his religion of course. Which he would love to impose on the rest of us.

Why must we suffer intelligent people who let irrationality blind them?

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