Homophobic Justice Antonin Scalia Says Gay Rights Are "Easy Cases"

Proving yet again that he's a horrible bigot and mental midget and, in my opinion, unfit to remain on the United States Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia (pictured above with fellow mental midget Justice  Thomas) engaged in a case of verbal diarrhea while speaking at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and at a book signing in Washington, D.C., and stated that abortion and gay rights cases were "easy cases."  In Scalia's view, virtually anything that was not within the contemplation of the drafters of the United States Constitution is exempt from constitutional protections.  This, of course means among other things, if his reasoning (or lack thereof) followed to its logical conclusion, that slavery is still perfectly legal and women should not have the right to vote The man is a Neanderthal and, again in my opinion, obviously suffering from early stages of senility or Alzheimer's.  Scalia is a living argument as to why perhaps lifetime appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court are not a good idea.  Here are highlights about Scalia's batshitery from Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed issues that come before the Supreme Court among the easiest to resolve.

Scalia calls himself a "textualist" and, as he related to a few hundred people who came to buy his new book and hear him speak in Washington the other day, that means he applies the words in the Constitution as they were understood by the people who wrote and adopted them.

"The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the Constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state," Scalia said at the American Enterprise Institute.

The issue of gay rights, or more specifically same-sex marriage, is expected to be a big one in the term that began this week. While the justices initially were scheduled to discuss the topic at their private conference in late September, it now appears likely that they will not make a decision about whether to take up a gay marriage case until after the presidential election, which would mean arguments would not take place until the spring.

Seriously, women and black Americans need to wake up to just how hostile this man is to modernity or anything that isn't in accord with his own reactionary, religious extremist and possibly racist views.  He is a menace to equal rights for ALL citizens.