Barney Frank: Justice Scalia A Homophobe - CBS News »
Posted By TimALoftis 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News(CBS/AP) Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" in a recent interview with a gay news Web site.
In an interview on 365gay.com, the Democratic lawmaker, who is gay, was discussing gay marriage and his expectation that the high court would some day be called upon to decide whether the Constitution allows the federal government to deny recognition to same-sex marriages.
"I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court," said Frank. The video of the interview is available online.
Attempts to obtain a comment from Frank were not immediately successful Monday. Scalia had no comment.
Scalia dissented from the court's ruling in 2003 that struck down state laws banning consensual sodomy. He has complained about judges, rather than elected officials, deciding questions of morality about which the Constitution is silent.
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Hobe8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Is it fair to say barny Frank has a claim to fame for bothering Young Male Pages?? Does this qualify barny as a first Class HOMOsexual???
This Corrupt PIG belongs in prision in the general population, he may really like that oppurtunity... -
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amazed8 months, 2 weeks ago
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((Scalia dissented from the court's ruling in 2003 that struck down state laws banning consensual sodomy. He has complained about judges, rather than elected officials, deciding questions of morality about which the Constitution is silent.))
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I agree with Scalia. Legislators should make the laws, judges should decide whether those laws are constitutional or not based upon the (wait for it) Constitution!!
Judges should not be making social policy nor legislating from the bench. Social policy should be the purview of the legislatures. -
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mesamanp478 months, 2 weeks ago
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Poor old Barfy Frank, it's about over for him. He is a heterophobe and that's not popular with humans except for those on the east coast. I showed my dog a picture of him and my dog peed on him. Not a bad idea, you might mention it to Barfy he may want to include it on his next tryst.
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NoWayMan8 months, 2 weeks ago
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all the cons got on here and immediately atacked Frank. totally predictable.
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BUT...is Scalia a homophobe?
in the 1996 case Romer v. Evans, Scalia compared homosexuality to murder. In his dissenting opinion, Scalia wrote:
"Of course it is our moral heritage that one should not hate any human being or class of human beings. But I had thought that one could consider certain conduct reprehensible — murder, for example, or polygamy, or cruelty to animals — and could exhibit even “animus” toward such conduct. Surely that is the only sort of “animus” at issue here: moral disapproval of homosexual conduct.”
so, Scalia thinks our reaction to homosexuality should be the same as our reaction to murder.
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NoWayMan8 months, 2 weeks ago
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you're missing the point. this isn't about Scalia giving the libearls anything they want.
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its about someone on the highest court in our land holding an obvious prejudice against millions of American citizens.
and what does it mean to you that some of Scalia's written opinions show that he's clearly a homophobe?
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Tcaros8 months, 2 weeks ago
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It's amazing. The Democrats helped low income people afford housing. A small percentage defaulted on their mortgages contributing to less than 10% of the current problem. Somehow conservatives being misinformed are blaming people who helped low income folks for the whole economic crisis.
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Get off Barney Frank.
Did you forget the Republican deregulation of subprime lending which is responsible for the larger part of the mess?
Did you forget the 50 billion a month for 7 years that went to Iraq then into the pockets of Halliburton, KBR, and Blackwater?
Did you forget that Bush hid a large part of the war spending off the budget?
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Georgia508 months, 2 weeks ago
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Barney Frank is a case study of the principle of a person with a bad foundation, unchecked, going on to wield influence far beyond his own life.
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If the foundation is rotten, crooked, out of true, etc., we may expect no less of the outcome of Barney Frank's life. -
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