BTW, I hate Barney Frank just as much as you do.

I feel you miss the point of the quote you gave, and are being unfair.

That was part of his dissent, yes? So he’s speaking officially, as a judge. Does he really need to say ‘as a Supreme Court Justice’ in every sentence? to rational people, no.

Even if it isn’t the dissent (since you didn’t provide a link, I’m assuming it is) He’s still sayng that he’d not enforce his opinion on others.

Since he’s speaking about what the Constitution says, and the Constitution is silent on the subject, your Koran argument is flawed at best, a straw man at worst.

What he is saying is that the Constitution of the United States is silent on the matter, thus leaving it up to the states, per the 10th ammendment.

Fun fact. Laws don’t have to be ‘kind’ or ‘nice’ or to be honest, ‘fair’ as long as they’re legal. The dissent says that as a citizen you may not like the law, and may want to change the law, but that is not the job of the Supreme Court

Was the voting age of 21 ‘fair’? Enough people thought it wasn’t that we had the 26th ammendment passed. as Barry McGuire said “Old enough to kill, but not for votin’”. It didn’t mean it was illegal, or that we should go back and let people who were 18 at the time of an election cast votes retroactively. It meant that the people, through the means provided by the Government we live under changed it.

That is what all homophobes say to cove their tracks.

And liberals brag about all the blacks who blindly vote for them. They GayLeftBorg ignores the homophobic laws passed against them by the very people they vote for.

How self-hating is that?

LOL…I love how people who defend criminals and morons like Barney Fag because of their sexual orientation then whine at other people about having no “self-respect”. Project much, Dave?

Justice Scalia wrote:

I would no more require a State to criminalize homosexual acts–or, for that matter, display any moral disapprobation of them–than I would forbid it to do so.

Um, if we were to substitute, say, “reading the Koran” for “homosexual acts” — i.e., if Scalia had written “I would neither require a state to criminalize reading the Koran, nor forbid a State to criminalize reading the Koran” — would anyone on this blog say “Gosh, Mr. Scalia, how very reasonable and even-handed of you”?

‘Cause what I’d say to Scalia — had he written that — would be something along the lines of “What the F&*K is wrong with you that you wouldn’t forbid such a totalitarian overreach of power to the State, you idiot? You don’t even deserve to be an American, you disgusting fascist, let alone a Supreme Court Justice.”

It may be objected that religious observance as well as freedom of the press are explicitly guaranteed by the First Amendment, whereas consensual sexual acts aren’t covered by the Constitution.

But note that Scalia didn’t write: “As a SCOTUS Justice, I’m not empowered to require that a State do so-and-so, nor empowered to forbid that a State do so-and-so.” He wrote, simply, “I would do neither one nor the other,” and hence he was evidently speaking not of what he had the Constitutional authority to do, but rather was giving his personal opinion about what he thought reasonable to do.

Regards,
Peter H.

Althouse: Barney Frank: Justice Scalia “makes it very clear that he’s angry, frankly, about the existence of gay people.”. … Barney continues and Ann responds: “If you read his opinion [in Lawrence v. Texas], he thinks it’s a good idea……

Barney Frank is a disgrace.

Barney Frank is a greasy, slimey scumbag of a politician.

And unlike Barney, I didn’t have to lie to insult an opponent.

Yes and being part of the victimhood industry of the DemocratParty is a badge of honor for most farLeft groups. For most of us here, it’d be a symbol of failure to persevere in the face of adversity.

It’s why Democrats will always talk about the equality of outcomes for social groups and GOPers need to keep on message that it’s all about the equality of opportunties.

One leads to victimhood. The other to freedom and accomplishment through self reliance.

Maybe it’s Althouse’s direct manner which so offends those on the left. And they, like Barney, are so easily offended.

“Victims” simply will not tolerate being told they are not victims.

Yes. In other words, he’s a bitter old queen.

Regards,
Peter H.