Thursday, June 26, 2003

The "You Have Got To Be Kidding Me" Department. Our supreme court demonstrates once again how utterly ideological they are. Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer agreed with Kennedy in full. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor agreed with the outcome of the case but not all of Kennedy's rationale. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented. "The court has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three. He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench. "The court has taken sides in the culture war," Scalia said, adding that he has "nothing against homosexuals." First, anyone who adds that they have "nothing against homosexuals" sure as hell does.  Second, the only people who believe there is a culture war are the conservatives trying to throw gays in prisons.  Let's be clear here -- the gay people just want to be left alone.  How fucking hard is that to understand?  Don't pry into their lives.  Don't set up surveillance to "catch them in the act".  Just get the fuck out and leave them alone.  There is NO clearer place for the separation of Church and State.  Anyone against gay sex takes that position because they believe it is a sin, pure and simple.  Sin is a religious judgement.  You want to chuck a gay guy out of your church because he's having sex with another guy, I say go right ahead.  Whatever.  It's your belief and your intolerant church, and you'll be judged for it (in every sense). You want to throw the same guy in jail?  That's where secularism has to step in.  That's where reason has to step in. A Supreme Court Justice who can't figure out something this basic, or is so blinded by his religious paranoia that he can't see around it, is a dangerous and unstable force in our society. The very first thing I thought when I read the headline was, am I going to finally get some reassurance that the Supreme Court is what it purports to be?  I am bitterly disappointed, once again. 11:48:21 AM    comment []