Scalia: No Constitutional protection against discrimination for women or gays

[Joanne98]

We're apparently not all created equal, at least as far as one Supreme Court Justice is concerned. HuffPo's Amanda Terkel finds a just-published interview with Scalia, in which he asserts that "the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation." From the interview.

In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we've gone off in error by applying the 14th Amendment to both?

Yes, yes. Sorry, to tell you that.... But, you know, if indeed the current society has come to different views, that's fine. You do not need the Constitution to reflect the wishes of the current society. Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.

Terkel:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/4/933254/-Scalia:-No-Constitutional-protection-against-discrimination-for-women-or-gays

At least their finally admitting what they're REALLY trying to do with their PHONY pro-life, pro-family, values agenda!

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The Constitution and its interpretation doesn't even suggest selective equality.

Everyone or nobody.

[Blue Owl]

2. "Justice" Scalia

What a fraud, and a real POS on top of that.

[hlthe2b]

5. As if the current Pope & pedophilia scandals had not tarred Catholics

sufficiently; in steps the ultimate asshole, Scalia, to finish the job. :eyes:

Sorry for any devout, practicing Catholics, but you need new leadership and "spokesmodels."

[whosinpower]

3. You do not need the Constitution to reflect the wishes of the current society.

Then what is it for?

[shraby]

4. AND He was one of the judges that gave personhood rights

to corporations! Methinks the judge is getting dotty.