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19 Hysterical Passages From Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Dissentersby Zack Ford & Judd Legum at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/06/26/3674385/dissent-marriage-equality/
SNIP.................
Scalia: The majority are pretentious narcissists.
The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic. It is one thing for separate concurring or dissenting opinions to contain extravagances, even silly extravagances, of thought and expression; it is something else for the official opinion of the Court to do so. Of course the opinions showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent.
Scalia: The majority is trying to overthrow the government, similar to the Nazis in Germany.
But what really astounds is the hubris reflected in todays judicial Putsch. The five Justices who compose todays majority are entirely comfortable concluding that every State violated the Constitution for all of the 135 years between the Fourteenth Amendments ratification and Massachusetts permitting of same-sex marriages in 2003.
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19 Hysterical Passages From Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Dissenters (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2015
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. What about the elves that live on the Moon?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)5. No elves there, only these guys,
the Mooninites:
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. Those men must be removed immediately from any court anywhere
Kber
(5,043 posts)3. So the real anti equality message boils down to "some forms of some religions think being gay is sin
Ok, but why in the world do they think the civil government should use state apparatus to keep me from committing their religion's sins?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. Scalia is, without question,
now barking, honking, screeching, full-bore, baying at the moon
And the amusing thing is that Judge Richard Posner destroyed every one of the dissenters' arguments, save for Ruckus' genuinely incomprehensible and irrelevant lunacy, in his opinion of last summer. In all seriousness, Posner burned them to the waterline and dynamited the wreckage just to be sure.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)6. There was a lot of ignorance and projection in their pontification.
Roberts: The decision invents a new concept of justice.
The majoritys decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Courts precedent. The majority expressly disclaims judicial caution and omits even a pretense of humility, openly relying on its desire to remake society according to its own new insight into the nature of injustice.
Roberts: marriage is only about children
(tell that to IRS and estate courts and medical personell in emergencies & end-of-life decisions)
Yall gotta read whole article.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)7. Fucking hilarious.
They're dinosaurs, grumbling about kids and lawns.