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Maybe he was mad that Justices Kagan and Breyer had just demolished his ridiculous suggestion that a pro-gay marriage ruling would prevent anti-gay marriage ministers from marrying anyone. (Various news accounts characterized his concern as merely worrying that anti-gay ministers would be compelled to marry gay couples.)
Here's what he said (transcript links are here):
In response, Justice Kagan pointedly noted:
...there are many rabbis that will not conduct marriages between Jews and non-Jews, notwithstanding that we have a constitutional prohibition against religious discrimination. And those rabbis get all the powers and privileges of the State, even if they have that rule, most — many, many rabbis won't do that.Then Justice Breyer sharply reminded Scalia:
It's called Congress shall make no law respecting the freedom of religion.
I love Scalia. Disagree with him on many things but as a character I like him. He is bright and gives a pleasant interview.
ReplyDeleteMore and more, I'm not saying this to demean his politics or jurisprudence, it seems like he is letting us know he needs Aricept or something. I know he is a bit of a troll in some ways. This is just a weak stupid ploy and Scalia was a lot smarter about his trolling a while back.
I assume he knows its time to step down but wants to wait for a Republican president. Its sad.