Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said the Supreme Court's
ruling in favor of gay marriage shows just how much trouble American democracy
is in.
In a strongly worded
dissent, the
conservative justice wrote that he did not care that gay marriage was now
legal, but he said that the court's ability to make this decision represented a
threat to democracy.
"I write separately to call attention to this
Court’s threat to American democracy," Scalia wrote in the opening
paragraph of his dissent.
"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," Scalia said.
"This practice of constitutional revision by an
unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant
praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted
in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the
freedom to govern themselves."
The conservative justice railed against his fellow
justices, calling the majority opinion "egotistical" and pointing out
that the justices were a homogeneous group that didn't represent the people. As
proof, Scalia pointed out that many went to the same law schools, and none were
evangelical or protestant Christians.
"To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage
to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative
panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation
without representation: no social transformation without representation,"
Scalia said.
Source:http://www.businessinsider.com/scalia-gay-marriage-dissent-2015-6
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The only thing we have to fear is our own government.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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