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class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Elisha Fieldstadt</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">Supreme Court Jtice Anton Slia was not one to hold his tongue.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x styl_portra__NRWbO"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img src=" alt="Image: Slia listens to Print Bh speak durg a swearg- ceremony" height="3024" width="2247"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Supreme Court Jtice Anton Slia</span><span class="ptn__source">Ron Edmonds / AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="">The nservative was well known for his piercg and often ntroversial words, both curated wrten cisns and off-the-cuff remarks.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">The judge, <a href=">whose ath at the age of 79 </a>was announced Saturday, had said that he relished wrg dissents bee that was when he uld simply nvey his opn whout havg to worry about swayg vot, acrdg to The Associated Prs.</p><p class="">And nvey his opn he did — often wh prose that was somehow as direct as was flowery, and ually guaranteed to spark ntroversy. Even those who were most likely to disagree wh him uld appreciate his art.</p><p class="">"He n make even the most sober judge lgh," his unlikely close iend, Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg once said.</p><p class=""><strong>Related: <a href=">Anton Slia: The Supreme Court Jtice's Life Pictur</a></strong></p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src=" height="720" width="1280"/></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="42474053706"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Influential Conservative Supreme Court Jtice Anton Slia Dead at 79</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Feb. 13, 2016</span><span>03:41</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Influential Conservative Supreme Court Jtice Anton Slia Dead at 79& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">Funny or not, here are some of Slia's most ntroversial opns and most outrageo quot:</p><h4 class="">On Gay Rights:</h4><p class="">From the pot that the Supreme Court first led favor of gay rights 1996, when the majory led that stat uld ban discrimatory acts agast gay people, Slia's opn on the subject had some crgg.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">"Of urse, is our moral herage that one should not hate any human beg or class of human begs. But I had thought that one uld nsir certa nduct reprehensible — murr, for example, or polygamy, or celty to animals — and uld exhib even 'anim' toward such nduct," Slia wrote his dissent.</p><p class="">While speakg at Prceton 2012, Slia was asked by a stunt <a href=">why he would pare laws</a> banng homosexualy wh laws agast murr.</p><p class="">"It's a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is lled the 'rctn to the absurd,'" Slia answered. "If we nnot have moral feelgs agast homosexualy, n we have agast murr? Can we have agast other thgs?"</p><p class="">"I'm surprised you aren't persuad," Slia told the stunt, who intifi as gay.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Also 2012, Slia said homosexualy should be illegal bee had been a crime for so long. "Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, was crimal every state," he said.</p><p class="">In June, nearly two s after Slia wrote his first dissent on gay rights, the Supreme Court <a href=">legalized</a> gay marriage natnwi.</p><p class="">Slia famolysuggted his dissent to <a href=">"ask the neart hippie,"</a> while argug that "Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expand by marriage."</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="42722373673"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Obama: Slia was 'Larger than Life'</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Feb. 14, 2016</span><span>03:11</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Obama: Slia was 'Larger than Life'& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><h4 class="">On Health Care:</h4><p class="">When the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act June 2015, Slia was none-too-happy wh the 6-3 cisn, and ed some tertg language his dissent to dite his displeasure.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">He lled the majory's lg "pure applce" and "terpretive jiggery-pokery."</p><p class="">More specifilly, Slia argued that "sayg that an exchange tablished by the Feral Government is 'tablished by the State' go beyond givg words bizarre meangs; leav the limg phrase 'by the State' wh no operative effect at all."</p><h4 class="">On Affirmative Actn:</h4><p class="">In December 2015, when the Supreme Court heard arguments a se about race-based admissns, <a href=">Slia suggted </a>Ain-Amerin stunts might fare better a "slower-track school" rather than more petive lleg.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">"There are those who ntend that do not benef Ain Amerins to get them to the Universy of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to havg them go to a ls-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well," Slia said</p><p class="">The ments were lled "racist," "disgtg" and "sultg."</p><h4 class="">On Immigratn:</h4><p class="">In 2012, the Supreme Court stck down some provisns of a ntroversial Arizona immigratn law.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class=""><a href=">Slia argued his dissent</a> that stat, the 18th century, were able to ci what to do wh "unwanted immigrants," cludg eed slav.</p><p class="">"In the first 100 years of the Republic, the Stat enacted numero laws rtrictg the immigratn of certa class of aliens, cludg nvicted crimals, digents, persons wh ntag diseas, and ( Southern Stat) eed blacks," Slia wrote.</p><p class="">"State laws not only provid for the removal of unwanted immigrants but also imposed penalti on unlawfully prent aliens and those who aid their immigratn," Slia argued.</p><h4 class="">On Gun Control:</h4><p class="">Shortly after 12 people were killed the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shootg, Slia was asked on Fox News whether the Send Amendment allows for<a href="> any sort of rtrictns </a>on gun rights.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">"Obvly, the amendment do not apply to arms that nnot be hand-rried. It’s to keep and bear. So, don’t apply to nnons," Slia said.</p><p class="">"But I suppose there are handheld rocket lnchers that n brg down airplan," he said, addg that whether or not Amerins uld rry such weapons was open to terpretatn. "That will have to be — will have to be cid," he said.</p><h4 class="">On Genr Discrimatn:</h4><p class="">While speakg at the Universy of California's Hastgs College of the Law 2010, Slia said the Constutn didn't specifilly prohib discrimatn on the basis of genr or sexual orientatn.</p><p class="">"If the current society wants to outlaw discrimatn by sex, you have legislatur," he said.</p><h4 class="">On the Death Penalty:</h4><p class="">In a dissent to a se when the Supreme Court cid that killers who mted their crim when they were 16 or 17 years of age uld not be executed, Slia wrote his dissent: "The Court th proclaims self sole arber of our Natn's moral standards — and the urse of dischargg that awome rponsibily purports to take guidance om the views of foreign urts and legislatur."</p><h4 class="">On Abortn:</h4><p class="">While speakg 2012, Slia said that cisns on some of the most divisive issu the untry, cludg abortn, were actually the simplt for him.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">"The ath penalty? Give me a break. It’s easy. Abortn? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the Constutn prevented rtrictns on abortn," he said, acrdg to The Associated Prs.</p><p class="">Slia applied the same logic when the Supreme Court 1992 upheld regulatns applied to Roe v. Wa.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">"The issue is whether [abortn] is a liberty protected by the Constutn of the Uned Stat. I am sure that is not," he said. "The longstandg tradns of Amerin society have permted to be legally proscribed."</p><h4 class="">Of Freedom of Exprsn:</h4><p class="">When a uple of Indiana tablishments argued that stoppg them om g nu dancers was a vlatn of the First Amendment, the Supreme Court cid that nu dancg was not exprsive nduct and therefore, not protected.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Slia was the majory, and provid vivid imagery his cisn.</p><p class="endmark">"The purpose of Indiana's nudy law would be vlated, I thk, if 60,000 fully nsentg adults crowd to the Hoosierdome to display their genals to one another, even if there were not an offend nocent the crowd," he wrote.</p><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><div class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--has-image expand-byle__thumbnail"><a href="><picture><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="48" width="48"/></picture></a></div><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Elisha Fieldstadt</a></span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-twter"></span></a><a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-email"></span></a></span><div class="expand-byle__b-wrapper"><p class="byle-b expand-byle__b">Elisha Fieldstadt is a breakg news reporter for NBC News.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body--right-rail-ntaer"><div class="article-body__right-rail layout-grid-em grid-l-4_5-l grid-l-3_5-xl grid-l-ph-half-xl"><div class="ad article-body__right-rail--ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxrail" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[300,250],[360,360]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="10" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="body-bottom-remend"><div class="ad ad--midrponsive ad-ntaer dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="midrponsive" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[700,1],[5,5]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="300" data-reh-terval="0" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te"></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div><div id="hfs-footer" class="dn-prt" data-activy-map="hfs-footer"><footer class="hfsf" ><div class="ner"><div class="logo"><a href="><svg class="peack" viewBox="578 62 67 39" xmlns=" fill="currentColor"><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M597.563 75.863l9.442 21.613-19.478-13.35c-4.887-3.24-3.896-8.79-1.19-11.237 3.83-3.24 9.245-2.12 11.226 2.97"></path><path class="feather" d="M610.57 70.93l-3.433 24.19-9.772-23c-2.113-5.75 2.64-9.516 5.81-9.583 3.632-.396 8.188 2.38 7.396 8.394"></path><path class="feather" d="M625.494 72.103l-9.707 23.067-3.102-20.82c-.265-3.17 1.716-3.237 2.443-3.832-.133-.463-1.124-.463-1.124-.463h-1.848c-.198-5.42 4.028-7.8 7.462-7.535 3.697.132 7.856 4.428 5.876 9.583"></path><path class="feather" d="M635.338 84.167L615.86 97.584l9.177-21.348c2.775-6.742 9.245-5.42 11.556-2.842 2.51 2.51 3.235 7.6-1.255 10.773"></path><path class="feather" d="M637.448 99.9h-22.515l18.29-12.756c4.49-2.975 9.244-.266 10.498 3.635 1.327 4.36-1.65 9.12-6.27 9.12"></path></g></svg></a></div><nav class="lks"><ul class="lks__wrap" data-l-2="14" data-l-3=15><li><a href=" target="_self">About</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Contact</a></li><li><a href=">Help</a></li><li><a href=">Careers</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ad Choic</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy Policy</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Do Not Sell My Personal Informatn</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CA Notice</a></li><li><a href=">Terms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)</a></li><li><a href=">NBC News Semap</a></li><li><a href=">Advertise</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Shoppg</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Personal Fance</a></li></ul></nav><div class="py"><p>© 2023 NBC UNIVERSAL</p><div class="brands"><a href="><svg viewBox="0 0 120 20" fill="none" xmlns=" aria-labelledby="nbc_news_logo"><tle class="nbc_news_logo">NBC News Logo

justice scalia comments on gay marriage

Supreme Court Jtice Anton Slia torched the majory opn regnizg gay marriage natnwi lorful language.

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JTICE ANTON SLIA'S PROVOTIVE COMMENTS ON GAY ISSU

* justice scalia comments on gay marriage *

” Fally, Slia warned that the lg to extend marriage rights to gay upl across the untry would rob the urt of s power: “Hubris is sometim fed as o’erweeng pri; and pri, we know, goeth before a fall.

Related: Anton Slia: The Supreme Court Jtice's Life PicturFunny or not, here are some of Slia's most ntroversial opns and most outrageo quot:On Gay Rights:From the pot that the Supreme Court first led favor of gay rights 1996, when the majory led that stat uld ban discrimatory acts agast gay people, Slia's opn on the subject had some crgg.

But I had thought that one uld nsir certa nduct reprehensible — murr, for example, or polygamy, or celty to animals — and uld exhib even 'anim' toward such nduct, " Slia wrote his speakg at Prceton 2012, Slia was asked by a stunt why he would pare laws banng homosexualy wh laws agast murr. ""I'm surprised you aren't persuad, " Slia told the stunt, who intifi as 2012, Slia said homosexualy should be illegal bee had been a crime for so long. For 200 years, was crimal every state, " he June, nearly two s after Slia wrote his first dissent on gay rights, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage famolysuggted his dissent to "ask the neart hippie, " while argug that "Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expand by marriage.

JTICE SLIA'S GAY MARRIAGE ADVICE: 'ASK THE NEART HIPPIE'

The nservative's latt turn of phrase his gay-marriage dissent ma a splash on social media. * justice scalia comments on gay marriage *

Slia's Most Controversial Quotabl on the Topic of Gay MarriageMarch 26, 2013 &#151; -- Sce his appotment to the Supreme Court 1986, Jtice Anton Slia has livered some of the most ntroversial statements heard om the natn's hight of his most notable ments centered on issu pertag to gay rights, the most ntroversial of which are listed v. Evans -- 1996In this 1996 se, the Supreme Court led favor of gay rights for the first time. The urt's majory led that dividual stat had the right to ban discrimatory practic agast gay people, wh Slia among those dissentg.

READ SLIA GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT: SUPREME COURT JTICE SLAMS 'CONSTUTNAL REVISN'

This week the Supreme Court will hear arguments about equal rights for gay Amerins. But we already know what Slia thks. * justice scalia comments on gay marriage *

Unrgraduate stunt Dunn Hosie found Slia's prev statements "extremely offensive" as a homosexual and took the opportuny to ask him about his past parisons of homosexualy to btialy and murr.

Right after Mary Bonto, the lawyer challengg marriage bans several stat, pleted her argument, a spectator rose om a back row and started screamg, “If you support gay marriage, you will burn Hell! ” Ined, there’s every reason to believe that Slia more or ls shared the protter’s view of the immoraly of homosexualy, and that he regards the Court’s toleratn of gay people as one of the great disasters of his nearly three s as a ’s unter-outburst was a notable ntrast to the rpectful tone of the rt of the argument, cludg om his fellow-nservativ.

GAY STUNT ASKS JTICE SLIA TO FEND HIS 'BTIALY' MENTS

It is one measure of the succs of the gay-rights movement that all the other Jtic felt pelled to phrase their qutns ways that honored the humany of gay people.

After Bonto said that gay people should be allowed to jo the stutn of marriage, Chief Jtice Roberts replied, “Well, you say ‘jo’ the stutn.

GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S A 'JUDICIAL PUTSCH' WARNS DISSENTG SLIA

)Jtice Elena Kagan battered John Bursch, the lawyer for Michigan, wh var versns of the same qutn: What ernmental tert was the state servg by excludg gays om the stutn of marriage? ” Bursch uld never really say what those nsequenc were, nor uld he expla why heterosexual-only marriage had to be prerved for the sake of the children when lots of straight people don’t have kids and lots of gay and lbian people most likely oute still looks like a victory for the plantiffs and marriage equaly all fifty stat.

ANTON SLIA ROUTELY LED AGAST GAY RIGHTS. THOSE OPNS EXPLA HIS PHILOSOPHY.

At a mimum, even before the cisn is announced, the argument self was an example of how much the untry, and the Court, has changed on the subject of gay rights. One le Supreme Court Jtice Anton Slia's dissent on gay marriage ptured the public imagatn after Friday's historic cisn.

” Judgg by the thgs he has said urt or wrten his legal opns about gays and lbians, he don’t really mean .

JTIC KENNEDY AND SLIA AND THEIR DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS

Dpe Slia’s long public history of exprsg revulsn and ntempt for gays and lbians, on the subject of whether people of the same sex should be allowed to marry, he is among the ne people whose opns will really matter.

Texas, the se challengg a Texas law that crimalized homosexual sex, Slia me up wh a tastels analogy to illtrate the issue. In his dissent Lawrence, Slia argued that moral objectns to homosexualy were sufficient jtifitn for crimalizg gay sex.

“Many Amerins do not want persons who openly engage homosexual nduct as partners their bs, as sutmasters for their children, as teachers their children’s schools, or as boarrs their home, ” he wrote.

THE BCHIT QUOT OM SLIA’S GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT

Surely that is the only sort of ‘anim’ at issue here: moral disapproval of homosexual nduct[. Slia cid to take the “moral disapproval” argument up a notch his dissent Lawrence, wrg that the Texas ban on homosexual sex “unniably seeks to further the belief of s cizens that certa forms of sexual behavr are ‘immoral and unacceptable, '” like laws agast “fornitn, bigamy, adultery, adult ct, btialy, and obsceny.

“[Colorado’s ban] prohibs special treatment of homosexuals, and nothg more, ” Slia wrote. “[I]t would prevent the State or any municipaly om makg ath benef payments to the ‘life partner’ of a homosexual when do not make such payments to the long time roommate of a nonhomosexual employee.

GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS DIVI SUPREME COURT JTIC

In one sectn, he plas that banng discrimatn based on sexual orientatn hirg amounts to grantg gays and lbians special treatment that Republins, adulterers, and Cubs haters don’t get.

” But Slia poted out that gays and lbians uld jt have sex wh people of the oppose sex stead.

“Men and women, heterosexuals and homosexuals, are all subject to [Texas’] prohibn of viate sexual terurse wh someone of the same sex. Protters opposed to gay marriage rallied ont of the Supreme Court Washgton on Thursday. Urt ultimately cid to end the ban on gay marriage, lg that the 14th Amendment requir stat to marry same-sex upl as well as regnize their marriag legally performed other stat.

JTICE SLIA IS STILL HOPPG MAD OVER THE GAY MARRIAGE RULG

ET -- Jt days after the Supreme Court announced would take s first ser look at gay marriage, Jtice Anton Slia was asked to fend his legal wrgs on Supreme Court jtice was visg Prceton Universy on Monday to discs his latt book when a llege hman, who intifi as gay, asked Slia about the parison he has drawn between laws banng sodomy wh those barrg btialy and murr.

Slia had dissented the se; his dissent, he mak a uple of parisons to laws agast btialy and clar, "nowhere do the Court’s opn clare that homosexual sodomy is a 'fundamental right. He didn’t jt alienate liberals by parg laws agast gay sex to laws agast murr and btialy, he has alienated laws nservativ have nmned. It didn’t make sense to me, " he Supreme Court will be reviewg California's ban on same-sex marriage and a feral law that f marriage as only the legal unn of a man and a woman  March, wh a cisn expected by late has "not been opaque" about his feelgs toward same-sex marriage the past, and gay rights advot do not expect him to change his md when the Supreme Court hears the s the sprg, said Fred Saz, vice print of munitns at Human Rights Campaign, the natn's largt gay rights anizatn.

He cloaked his opn warm words for the gay rights activists he knew would cheer the urt's actn.

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