Dissenting Justices Cling To Ancient Hate In Opposing Gay Marriage
June 27, 2015
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as posted by the channel"In a 5-4 decision penned by Justice Anthony Kennedy and joined by the court's liberal wing, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the entire country Friday morning.
Unsurprisingly, the other four conservative justices on the court besides Kennedy disagreed, each writing his own dissent. Antonin Scalia's, per usual, is a classic. Legalizing same-sex weddings isn't just a threat to traditional marriage for Scalia. Nay, it is a sign of democracy's downfall. Just "ask a hippie."
Scalia opened his dissent by warning that legalizing marriage was not just a misreading of the law. He claims to not care one way or another about the concept of gay people getting married—though past opinions say otherwise. Rather, he felt compelled to write his own dissent in order to "call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy": "Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court." Also he goes out of his way to bash fellow justices as pretentious poets."
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John Iadarola (Think Tank; ), Ana Kasparian (The Point; ) & Cenk Uygur () of The Young Turks break it down.
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