Former Rep. Barney Frank: Justice Scalia Is A Homophobe
Former Rep. Barney Frank: Justice Scalia Is A Homophobe
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people won two victories in the Supreme Court today. We expected the big one: the fourth in a series of opinions by Justice Anthony Kennedyone of the last sitting Reagan appointeesvindicating our right to legal equality. The unexpected one was smaller in public impact but also significant: Justice Antonin Scalias disclaimer that he is not personally troubled by the fact that we can marry each other. After a series of opinions, speeches and public comments expressing his strong disapproval of us, vigorously defending societys right to express this attitude in discriminatory public policies, Scalia begins his characteristically vitriolic dissent by protesting that the substance of todays decree is not of immense personal importance to me.