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  • SCALIA'S MORALITY OF PREJUDICE

    06/26/2003 8:18:40 PM PDT · by Luis Gonzalez · 153 replies · 240+ views
    The Daily Dish - andrewsullivan.com ^ | Thursday, June 26, 2003 | Andrew Sullivan
    SCALIA'S MORALITY OF PREJUDICE: Antonin Scalia's dissent in Lawrence vs Texas is, as usual, interesting and not quite as chock-full of animus toward homosexual dignity as in the past. It comes down to two arguments: that an assertion of "morality" is justification enough for any law anywhere, regardless of its rationality; and that a law that covers only same-sex sodomy is not discriminatory toward homosexuals. Both ideas strike me as wrong. On the first count, surely the government does need to provide some kind of reasonable justification for a law expressing "morality," which doesn't just rely on what people have...