Justice Scalia: Americans ought to be having more orgies

[Tesibria]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1317386,00.html

Orgies are the way to ease social tensions, claims US judge

Oliver Burkeman in New York
Friday October 1, 2004
The Guardian

He is the conservative bastion of the US supreme court, a favourite of President Bush, and a hunting partner of the vice-president. He has argued vociferously against abortion rights, and in favour of anti-sodomy laws.
But it turns out that there is another side to Justice Antonin Scalia: he thinks Americans ought to be having more orgies.

Challenged about his views on sexual morality, Justice Scalia surprised his audience at Harvard University, telling them: "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."

It seems unlikely that this is what President Bush meant when he promised to appoint more judges like Scalia to the court, should the opportunity arise. Crucially, Justice Scalia is one of the judges in favour of overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark judgment protecting abortion as a constitutional right.

One audience member also asked the judge "whether you have any gay friends, and, if not, whether you'd like to be my friend," the Harvard Crimson newspaper reported.

"I probably do have some gay friends, but I have never pressed the point," Justice Scalia responded. He offered no clue to the logic behind his claim that orgies eliminate social tensions.

Nobody asked him whether he was familiar with Rick Moody's novel The Ice Storm, turned into a movie by Ang Lee, which appeared to suggest the exact opposite.

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1. About time we had a kinky SCJ

In the future: a constitutional amendment requiring orgies?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. He's just trying to set up Clarence to follow him as Chief Justice

[donsu]

3. it's comforting to know we have an insane Supreme

it's not the orgy part, it's the "ease social tensions" part.

does this man really believe that the masses having orgies will relieve their tensions.

is he nuts?

[geniph]

4. Having been there, and done that, I can safely assert

that sometimes he's right, and sometimes he's wrong. ;-) All depends on how things go that particular evening. Just like everything else.

What I do want to know is WHAT IN THE HELL WAS HE THINKING to say that? Eh? What audience is he appealing to? Or has his brain finally been eaten away by the sheer corrosiveness of his horribly unpleasant personality?

[delete_bush]

5. Does this mean he'll have to recuse

himself if any abu-garaby (I forget the official bush pronunciation) type cases go before the court?

[tnlefty]

6. Perhaps. Definitely a LOT less fat Tony Scalia would be good for

Americans.

[Moderator]

7. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=876791