Wow. If you do this sort of thing long enough, you find yourself doing all kinds of crazy things. If you’d told me I would ever rise to defend Injustice Scalia, I’d have thought you were crazy, but here I go.
I was reading this firedoglake post and was struck by a quote attributed to Fat Tony, to the effect, that he has a ( and these are words from the quote) “longstanding and profound fear of homosexuals”. I googled Fat Tony’s last name along with the quote, and found the source to be the Borowitz report at the New Yorker, which bills itself as the “news reshuffled”. The quote was attributed to an interview with Fox News and the article also included the following:
“As Justices of the Supreme Court, we have a sacred duty to check our personal feelings at the door,” he told the Fox News Channel. “In my case, that means putting aside my longstanding and profound fear of homosexuals.”
Justice Scalia added that he was committed “to safeguarding the rights of all Americans—even those I personally find terrifying.”
“I take my role as an impartial arbiter very seriously,” he said. “So when I hear a case, I put all feelings of abhorrence, disgust, and revulsion completely out of my mind.”
The Justice said that when it came to the issue of same-sex marriage he would rely on the Constitution, “which makes no mention of gays whatsoever.”
“Remember, when the framers wrote the Constitution, there were no gays in America,” he said. “They didn’t come here until the nineteen-sixties.”
So, this sent me back to the search results and a quick review of the results seemed to show that a lot of folks swallowed this satire hook, line and sinker.
The guy is a bigot, but not stupid. The giveaway is that while lots of the folks swallowing this line attribute it to a Fox interview, there seems to be no verification that the interview ever took place nor is there any actual video. So, I am here to defend Scalia. He would never have said these things. He merely thinks them. Entirely different, sort of.
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