With a potentially ground-breaking decision on gay marriage expected next week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Friday morning that he and other judges should stop setting moral standards concerning homosexuality and other issues.
Why?
We aren’t qualified, Scalia said.
In a speech titled “Mullahs of the West: Judges as Moral Arbiters,” the outspoken and conservative jurist told the N.C. Bar Association that constitutional law is threatened by a growing belief in the “judge moralist.” In that role, judges are bestowed with special expertise to determine right and wrong in such matters as abortion, doctor-assisted suicide, the death penalty and same-sex marriage.
Scalia said that approach presents two problems: Judges are not moral experts, and many of the moral issues now coming before the courts have no “scientifically demonstrable right answer.”
As such, he said, it’s a community’s job to decide what it finds morally acceptable, not the courts’.
Shorter Scalia: TYRANNY OF THE MOB FOREVAH.
So yeah, that whole Constitutional fundamental rights thing? Naah, those aren't guarantees, those are "what the community finds morally acceptable" and stuff. So yeah, it's totally cool to hate gay people or brown people or immigrant people because as long as 50% +1 find it morally acceptable to do so, it's cool to discriminate.
Besides, not discriminating is hard, people. Just take it from Justice Wario here.
Perhaps he should, you know, resign if it's just too hard to adjudicate stuff. That's just me talking.
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