Quote of the Day

[Content Note: Homophobia; anti-choicery.]

"The issue of gay rights, on abortion, on many of the issues in which [Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]'s opinions and mine differ does not pertain to the substance. It doesn't pertain to whether gay people ought to have those rights or whether there ought to be a constitutional right or a right to an abortion. That isn't the issue. The issue is who decides. That's all. I don't have any public views on any of those things. The point is who decides? Should these decisions be made by the Supreme Court without any text in the Constitution or any history in the Constitution to support imposing on the whole country or is it a matter left to the people? But don't paint me as anti-gay or anti-abortion or anything else. All I'm doing on the Supreme Court is opining about who should decide."—Justice Antonin Scalia, during an event at George Washington University last night.

I wanted to provide the whole quote for context, but, obviously, this is real money quote: "Don't paint me as anti-gay or anti-abortion." OKAY PLAYER LOLOLOLOLOL FOREVER.

That whole "all I'm doing is opining on who should decide" shit is so disingenuous, especially coupled with that garbage about there being no explicit text in the Constitution. The Supreme Court makes decisions on issues on which there is no explicit guiding text all the time; that's basically their whole job and raison d'être.

Scalia's biases become evident when he will make this issue about privacy, but not that one, for example.

"I don't have any public views on any of those things." You know, I think you actually do. Because, for real, there aren't progressive people who insist on being strict constructionists at the expense of people's rights and lives.

[From the wayback machine: Scalia says criminalizing abortion and "homosexual sodomy" are "no-brainers."]