Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia hopped over to San Francisco on Friday to speak at UC Hastings College of Law, and during his talk, among other things, he mentioned that the Constitution does not provide protections based on gender or sexual orientation.

Of course, we all know that Scalia believes in "originalism" and doesn't want to read anything into the 230-year-old document that isn't there, because the framers were geniuses, naturally, who thought of everything. ""If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, you have legislatures," he said during a 90-minute Q&A, and he also pointed to sexual orientation as something not explicitly protected from discrimination. No word on whether any LGBTQQI students in the audience shouted out any hostile follow-up questions in reply.

[Chron]