Supreme Court Justice Scalia Equates Homosexuality with Murder and Bestiality

Federal judges are supposed to be impartial when presiding over hearings and cases and are supposed to limit their considerations to the facts presented and the applicable case law and legal precedents.  If judges cannot remain unbiased and conform to the forgoing requirements, they are supposed to recuse them self from the case - i.e., not hear the matter and abstain from the matter.  And in the grand scheme of things, the U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to be the epitome of proper judicial conduct.  Enter Justice Antonin Scalia who while speaking at Princeton University equated homosexuality with murder and bestiality.  Does anyone think this arrogant, pompous blowhard can conform to proper judicial conduct in the upcoming Prop 8 and DOMA cases?  Scalia should be required to recuse himself and abstain from participating in these cases.  He has already shown his extreme bias and bigotry and how he will rule even before briefs are filed and oral arguments presented.  He is an embarrassment to the judiciary.  Here is a summary of Scalia's batshitery and bigotry via Politico:

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday found himself defending his legal writings that some find offensive and anti-gay.

Speaking at Princeton University in his native New Jersey, Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder.

“I don’t think it’s necessary, but I think it’s effective,” Scalia said, adding that legislative bodies can ban what they believe to be immoral.

Scalia has been giving speeches around the country to promote his new book, “Reading Law,” and his lecture at Princeton came just days after the court agreed to take on two cases that challenge the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

Some in the audience who had come to hear Scalia speak about his book applauded but more of those who attended the lecture clapped at Hosie’s question.

“It’s a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the `reduction to the absurd,’” Scalia told freshman Duncan Hosie of San Francisco during the question-and-answer period.

“If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?”

Scalia said he is not equating sodomy with murder but drawing a parallel between the bans on both.

Then he deadpanned: “I’m surprised you aren’t persuaded.”

Hosie said afterward that he was not persuaded by Scalia’s answer. He said he believes Scalia’s writings tend to “dehumanize” gays.

I'll say it again.  Scalia is an arrogant, bigoted ass and his conduct puts the judicial system and the Supreme Court in ill repute.  The man truly needs to resign or be removed from the Supreme Court.  As for where Scalia's anti-gay animus comes from, take a guess.  The Bible, of course, much of which as the last post indicates is comprised of myths and propaganda.