"Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct..."

[Scarlet]

“Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.”
—Justice Antonin Scalia

What do you think of this? Is he right? Does it matter? Is it relevant to a case in deciding whether sodomy laws are legal?

[Jory]

What do you think of this? He needs to define what many is. I know he hasn't personally asked me or my circle of friends.



Is he right? I hope not, but if he is going to make such a broad statement, he needs to have facts/data to back it up.



Does it matter? No, Not so long ago, the same thing could have been said about black people. Did it make it right?

Is it relevant to a case in deciding whether sodomy laws are legal? No, see the above explaination.

[Keri]

:pukeface:

Well he sure doesn't speak for me and I think it's assinine to make those accusations with no FACTS to back it up at all. Perhaps his statement is true about the extreme right wing christian fanatics but I don't value or respect anything those whack-jobs have to say or think anyways.

[bRATmom]

I think its sad... I want anybody who can step up to the plate and be a good role model for my children...

He is not right. He is very old fashioned and wrong.. get into the 21th and beyond century....

yes it matters, he is a judge... he has power to influence... and he isnt impartial about it.

Look, if nobody askes me what I do in the bedroom... I will extend the same curtisy to everyone else.... why on earth do we need that law anyways???? it hurts who???? nobody... its stupid, its a waste of time that could be spent on something important.

[Def.I.Nition]

Well let's presume his premise is correct. If we presume his premise is correct then we must ask whether his argument is valid. I am presuming, for the sake of argument that Scalia believes the premise "many Americans do not want ..." is basis for a legal decision involving Gay rights or sodomy laws. If that is Scalia's argument then, even presuming the premise is correct his logic is specious as it is an ad populum argument and should have no basis in law.


Thus, it doesn't matter what "many Americans" believe.