April 14, 2005

Eminently fair

Finally, someone has the courage to ask the critical question!

When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke Tuesday night at NYU's Vanderbilt Hall, "The room was packed with some 300 students and there were many protesters outside because of Scalia's vitriolic dissent last year in the case that overturned the Texas law against gay sex," our source reports. "One gay student asked whether government had any business enacting and enforcing laws against consensual sodomy. Following Scalia's answer, the student asked a follow-up: 'Do you sodomize your wife?' The audience was shocked, especially since Mrs. Scalia was in attendance. The justice replied that the question was unworthy of an answer." [emphasis and hyperlink added]
Unworthy of an answer? Scalia seems to argue in his Lawrence dissent that regulating consensual sexual activity between adults is a "legitimate state interest". In the same dissent, he inserts the phrase "so-called" before the phrase "right to privacy".

Seems to me that Scalia should either answer the question, or plead the Fifth! :)

Posted by Jeffrey at April 14, 2005 11:05 AM
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