Scalia speaks boldly at a Santorum-friendly venue:

Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia made a splash yesterday in a speech where he derided recent court rulings on gay sex.

The ruling, Scalia said, "held to be a constitutional right what had been a criminal offense at the time of the founding and for nearly 200 years thereafter."

Scalia adopted a mocking tone to read from the court's June ruling that struck down state antisodomy laws in Texas and elsewhere.

Scalia wrote a bitter dissent in the gay sex case that was longer than the ruling itself.

On Thursday, Scalia said judges, including his colleagues on the Supreme Court, throw over the original meaning of the Constitution when it suits them.

"Most of today's experts on the Constitution think the document written in Philadelphia in 1787 was simply an early attempt at the construction of what is called a liberal political order," Scalia told a gathering of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

We've never heard of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, but took a quick look at their website, and lo and behold, what is their featured Book of the Month? Everyday Graces by Karen Santorum.

Santorum. That sounds familiar. Could it be? Yes, she is the wife of Republican Senator Rick Santorum.

Loony birds of a feather, flock together.

posted by Quiddity at 10/24/2003 05:11:00 AM