Scalia opens mouth, inserts foot once again

[47of74]

The Supreme Court's Resident Pissant is talking again...

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The idea that the U.S. government should be neutral about religion is not supported by the Constitution and is not rooted in American history, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday.

“God has been very good to us,” Scalia said at a speech at a Catholic high school in Louisiana, according to the Times-Picayune. “One of the reasons God has been good to us is that we have done him honor.”

Scalia, a Catholic, is one of the court's more conservative members. He recently caused uproar over remarks on affirmative action.

On Saturday, he said the First Amendment prohibits the government from endorsing one religion over another. But, he added, that doesn’t mean the government has to favor non-religion over religion.

I'm not gonna even bother trying to dissect all the wrong with his points here.

[RosyDaisy]

Now that don't make no damn sense. Time for Scalia to step down.

[Imagine20]

At this point, whenever I hear him speak it sounds like the adults in Charlie Brown Wah-wah-wahh-wahwahwah. 

[bashfulpixie]

I still don't understand how someone so ignorant is part of the most powerful court in the country.

[Childless]

Ha!  We aren't one of the richest, most comfortable societies in the world because God favors us.  We're one of the richest, most comfortable societies in the world because we've stepped on, gunned down, and oppressed other countries and people to get there.  We've taken what we've wanted (mostly by force) without concern for anyone else.  That's why we have what we have.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is oblivious to history.

[Cleopatra7]

What I don't understand is why Scalia seems blithely ignorant to the fact that traditionally the U.S. was partial to religion, specifically WASP Protestantism. Catholics like himself were considered to be doing Christianity wrong at best and at worst were considered fifth columns for the Vatican. Italians in particular were considered violent, low class, and of questionable intelligence. Scalia is surely of an age to remember old school anti-Catholicism. I guess he considers atheists and non-Christians to be a bigger threat than Protestant chauvinism, but it's precisely because of the activism of religious outsiders that few people today think that Catholics can't be good American citizens. 

[warriorblade8857]

12 hours ago, Cleopatra7 said:

What I don't understand is why Scalia seems blithely ignorant to the fact that traditionally the U.S. was partial to religion... Scalia is surely of an age to remember old school anti-Catholicism. 

Selective memory.

It also seems to affect Thomas and Alito.

[47of74]

What I don't understand is why Scalia seems blithely ignorant to the fact that traditionally the U.S. was partial to religion, specifically WASP Protestantism. Catholics like himself were considered to be doing Christianity wrong at best and at worst were considered fifth columns for the Vatican. Italians in particular were considered violent, low class, and of questionable intelligence. Scalia is surely of an age to remember old school anti-Catholicism. I guess he considers atheists and non-Christians to be a bigger threat than Protestant chauvinism, but it's precisely because of the activism of religious outsiders that few people today think that Catholics can't be good American citizens. 

Here in Iowa in the state's early years we had quite a few move out here to get away from anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant attitudes found out east. A lot of people didn't like Lincoln not so much because of his position on slavery but because they saw him as being in tight with the know nothings.

Many of us where I live are descendants of people from Germany. During WW I those people and their children faced discrimination, attacks on their patriotism, and even an attempt by Iowa's Governor to outlaw foreign languages, most especially German. (Google Babel Proclamation).

When some of our reich wingers get stupid I shake my head because many of our ancestors probably faced some of the same stuff they hurl at immigrants and their children today.

[FundiesInParis]

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh Scalia 

[Howl]

On 1/4/2016 at 11:57 PM, 47of74 said:

When some of our reich wingers get stupid I shake my head because many of our ancestors probably faced some of the same stuff they hurl at immigrants and their children today.

I've recently seen references to Trump as "Mein Trumpf"

Scalia is an unmitigated nincompoop. 

[47of74]

27 minutes ago, Howl said:

I've recently seen references to Trump as "Mein Trumpf"

Scalia is an unmitigated nincompoop. 

With Trump I've taken to calling him Der Trumpenführer.