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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 12:01 PM Jun 2015

Thomas' brutal paragraph (slaves didn't lose their dignity, ergo LGBT don't suffer loss dignity)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/26/clarence_thomas_same_sex_marriage_dissent_slaves_did_not_lose_their_dignity.html

Justice Clarence Thomas has a fervent dissent of the Supreme Court’s historic decision to invalidate same-sex marriage bans. His argument, joined by Justice Antonin Scalia, quibbles with the definition of liberty itself. “Since well before 1787, liberty has been understood as freedom from government action, not entitlement to government benefits,” Thomas writes. Working from this principle, Thomas insists that the petitioners in the case “have in no way been deprived” of their liberty. “They have been able to travel freely around the country, making their homes where they please. Far from being incarcerated or physically restrained, petitioners have been left alone to order their lives as they see fit.” And yet he takes the argument even further—because human dignity “has long been understood in this country to be innate,” here’s who else Thomas thinks hasn’t been deprived of it:



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Thomas' brutal paragraph (slaves didn't lose their dignity, ergo LGBT don't suffer loss dignity) (Original Post) Roland99 Jun 2015 OP
Shame he doesn't recognize the same about rights. n/t malthaussen Jun 2015 #1
Pure Hypocrisy djtexas Jun 2015 #2
Holy M'F'n Shit! He actually thought and wrote that?!?! TheGunslinger Jun 2015 #3
Staggers the imagination, doesn't it? randome Jun 2015 #4
I believe that you are giving him BlueMTexpat Jun 2015 #5

djtexas

(29 posts)
2. Pure Hypocrisy
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 12:08 PM
Jun 2015

This may be the most hypocritical thing ever - Judge Thomas is married to a white woman which would have put him in jail at best or even murdered in Virginia before the Supreme Court ruled in 1967 that interracial marriage was legal. That was also based on the thousands of years of biblical prejudice and supported by virtuous Christian organizations.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
4. Staggers the imagination, doesn't it?
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 12:15 PM
Jun 2015

One of the most childish, nonsensical rants I've ever read from someone holding high office.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

BlueMTexpat

(15,376 posts)
5. I believe that you are giving him
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 12:34 PM
Jun 2015

too much credit.

I don't believe that he is capable of thinking. He was totally unqualified to be a Supreme Court justice when Bush I presented him as a nominee. He hasn't improved a bit since.

The opinion was likely written by a law clerk, but Thomas would have had to approve and sign it.

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