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Openly gay Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" in the above interview with 365gay.com. The accurate slam came about when Frank was discussing same-sex marriages and the Supreme Court
"I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court," said Frank.
Scalia is the second senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, considered to be a "core member of the conservative wing of the court."
Scalia had no comment.
In other news, California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin posed a hypothetical question recently, asking what would happen if the state issued civil-union licenses to both straight and gay couples. Well, maybe we'll find out soon enough. After Ming's statements, two college students circulated petitions (oh noes!) for a ballot initiative that could remove the word "marriage" from state laws.
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Barney tends to call it like it is. Scalia *is* a homophobe.
You have to admit, Barney gets to sounding and looking more like Droopy Dog every day.
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Compare and contrast; one of my high school english teachers drilled that into my head. Compare and contrast: Slave rights and gay rights; the contrasts are easy, the comparisons are profound. Slaves could not get legally married either. They could not create and sign contracts, and what is marriage mostly (legally speaking) but a huge contract with thousands of rights and responsibilities. Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights spoke there last year saying, "That just like apartheid laws that criminalized sexual relations between different races, laws against homosexuality are increasingly becoming recognized as anachronistic and inconsistent both with international law and with traditional values of dignity, inclusion, and respect for all." Apartheid: A system of laws applied to one category of citizens in order to isolate them and keep them from having privileges and opportunities given to all others. Stop gay apartheid.
I appreciate and am sympathetic to your point, but I highly recommend re-adding "spaces between sentences" to your typing repertoire. Paragraphs, too, if you want to get fancy.