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

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WHY FOUR JTIC WERE AGAST THE SUPREME COURT'S HUGE GAY-MARRIAGE DECISN

* gay marriage scalia *

” 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. In lg favor of gay marriage, he said, "Five lawyers have closed the bate and enacted their own visn of marriage as a matter of nstutnal law. "(RELATED: What 2016 Candidat Are Sayg About the Gay Marriage Rulg)Roberts's other dispute is that many of the arguments ma support of gay marriage uld also be ed to support plural marriage.

"If not havg the opportuny to marry 'serv to disrpect and subordate' gay and lbian upl, why wouldn't the same 'imposn of this disabily, '... "(RELATED: Watch The Two GOP Printial Candidat After the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Decisn)Slia wrote that if he ever were to jo an opn that began wh that sentence he "would hi my head a bag, " sayg such language was more like the "mystil aphorisms of the fortune okie" than, say, legendary Chief Jtice John Marshall.

"Jtice Samuel AloIn his dissent, Alo argued that gay marriage is not protected the Constutn unr the Due Procs Clse bee "liberty" only appli to those prcipl that are rooted U. His argument is that the ncept of gay marriage is new and therefore not clud. The Jtic the majory claim the thory to nfer nstutnal protectn upon that right simply bee they believe that is fundamental, " Alo also reaffirmed his posn that there is no way to nfirm what the oute of gay marriage may be on the stutn of tradnal marriage, and therefore the Court is and should not be a posn to take on the "For lennia, marriage was extribly lked to the one thg that only an oppose-sex uple n do: procreate.

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. * gay marriage scalia *

Their basic argument is that Stat formalize and promote marriage, unlike other fulfillg human relatnships, orr to enurage potentially procreative nduct to take place wh a lastg un that has long been thought to provi the bt atmosphere for raisg that the majory has led favor of gay marriage, Alo offered a stark warng about future nflict between relig liberty and progrsive ias. Rellg the harsh treatment of gays and lbians the past, some may thk that turnabout is fair play. 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'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. * gay marriage scalia *

His many reflectns on homosexualy formed a notable part of his judicial legacy. This story was published March 2013, as the urt prepared to hear historic gay rights s. ” Judgg by the thgs he has said urt or wrten his legal opns about gays and lbians, he don’t really mean .

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. Here are the lowlights of Slia’s anti-gay ments:.

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

How Slia's opns on gay rights expla the late Supreme Court jtice. * gay marriage scalia *

Texas, the se challengg a Texas law that crimalized homosexual sex, Slia me up wh a tastels analogy to illtrate the issue. Let’s throw gay people jail bee some people don’t like them.

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. Laws banng homosexual sex are like laws banng murr.

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

Surely that is the only sort of ‘anim’ at issue here: moral disapproval of homosexual nduct[.

GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS UNFAZED BY SLIA'S 'ABSURD' SODOMY COMMENTS

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. Homosexual upl are like roommat. “[Colorado’s ban] prohibs special treatment of homosexuals, and nothg more, ” Slia wrote.

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Read Slia Gay Marriage Dissent: Supreme Court Jtice Slams 'Constutnal Revisn' .

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