Scalia: No protection against sex bias, no right to privacy in Constitution

[babsbunny]

Scalia: No protection against sex bias, no right to privacy in Constitution

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/scalia-protection-sex-bias-privacy-constitution/

By Daniel Tencer
Sunday, September 19th, 2010 -- 12:14 pm

'If the current society wants to outlaw sex discrimination, hey, we have legislatures,' Scalia says

In comments foreshadowing how he might rule on the issue of gay marriage, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has said he believes the US Constitution doesn't provide protection from discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation.

Scalia, a Reagan appointee considered to be a conservative stalwart on the bench, told an audience at UC Hastings Law School in San Francisco that the court's recognition of a constitutional right to privacy -- the basis of Roe v. Wade -- is a "total absurdity," the San Francisco Chronicle reports

[aquart]

1. How is Fat Tony?

Eating pizza? Fried chicken? Bacon and eggs?

[Rex]

7. Hopefully he eats deep fried food at least twice a day.

And drinks booze like an old hound at night.

[Taverner]

11. Yes

Hope springs eternal

[Goblinmonger]

2. Complete fucking whack-a-doodle, Scalia is.

I will not shed a single tear what that asshole dies.

[Warpy]

3. The Roman Catholic church has no right to a tax exemption, either

and neither does any other church.

Dead letter literalists can be bitten--HARD--when other people play the game.

Oh, and the right to privacy is certainly implied by the Fourth Amendment.

[jaxx]

4. No question on where he stands, the damned old bigot.

:grr:

[valerief]

5. Is a corporate merger a corporation pregnancy? And a corporate dissolution a corporate abortion? nt

[Raven]

6. He has no business discussing these matters as they may come

before the Court. I wonder if he is being paid for these speeches.

[baldguy]

8. No right to privacy? Then let's open up Wall Street's books.

Let's see what the banksters actually spent the bailout on.

Let's see who's actually paying to promote the Teabaggers.

Let's see which businesses are the biggest recipients of corporate welfare.

[valerief]

9. Bingo! nt

[glitch]

12. Let's do an old fashioned national inquirer-style expose on Opus Dei and Vaffie Scalia nt

[enki23]

10. not really big on the ninth amendment, eh Fat Tony, you fucking vermin.

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[rove karl rove]

13. America: No protection against Antonin Scalia n/t

[unblock]

14. there's that much vaunted conservative respect for precedence!