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Thread ID: 15219 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-10-05
2004-10-05 00:39 | User Profile
I wonder how he thought Lynne Cheney was. [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1317186,00.html[/url] Is this what a Supreme Court Justice, there for life, should be telling college students ? I am disgusted. It's also not true either.
Orgies are the way to ease social tensions, claims US judge
Oliver Burkeman in New York Friday October 1, 2004 The Guardian
He is the conservative bastion of the US supreme court, a favourite of President Bush, and a hunting partner of the vice-president. He has argued vociferously against abortion rights, and in favour of anti-sodomy laws.
But it turns out that there is another side to Justice Antonin Scalia: he thinks Americans ought to be having more orgies.
Challenged about his views on sexual morality, Justice Scalia surprised his audience at Harvard University, telling them: "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."
It seems unlikely that this is what President Bush meant when he promised to appoint more judges like Scalia to the court, should the opportunity arise. Crucially, Justice Scalia is one of the judges in favour of overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark judgment protecting abortion as a constitutional right.
One audience member also asked the judge "whether you have any gay friends, and, if not, whether you'd like to be my friend," the Harvard Crimson newspaper reported.
"I probably do have some gay friends, but I have never pressed the point," Justice Scalia responded. He offered no clue to the logic behind his claim that orgies eliminate social tensions.
Nobody asked him whether he was familiar with Rick Moody's novel The Ice Storm, turned into a movie by Ang Lee, which appeared to suggest the exact opposite.
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2004-10-05 01:05 | User Profile
[url]http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/237743p-204039c.html[/url]
ok ive heard enough of this ..
2004-10-05 02:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Exelsis_Deo]He has argued vociferously against abortion rights, and in favour of anti-sodomy laws.
But it turns out that there is another side to Justice Antonin Scalia: he thinks Americans ought to be having more orgies.
Challenged about his views on sexual morality, Justice Scalia surprised his audience at Harvard University, telling them: "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."
This sounds as if it were some musing speculation on the part of Justice Scalia, who unwisely vocalized it in order to make himself seem more "human" (as they say) to his degenerate collegiate audience. In any event, actions speak louder than words, and Justice Scalia is a lifelong family man with 10 children. If he's ALSO a "swinger," which I rather doubt, well, that's between him and God, I suppose. Sexual sins are just another type of sin, after all, not super-duper extra-special ones, like some of the less sophisticated elements in Christianity (our Attorney General springs immediately to mind in that regard) seem to imagine, and we all sin at various times.
This does lead to a potentially interesting question, however. Does "swinging," consensual "wife-swapping" and the like constitute some form of "lesser adultery," or whatnot? Despite whatever Christians may think of such activities, it does seem to be somewhat different from traditional notions of adultery. Or is there some other term for this kind of transgression?
2004-10-05 03:58 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]This sounds as if it were some musing speculation on the part of Justice Scalia, who unwisely vocalized it in order to make himself seem more "human" (as they say) to his degenerate collegiate audience. In any event, actions speak louder than words, and Justice Scalia is a lifelong family man with 10 children. If he's ALSO a "swinger," which I rather doubt, well, that's between him and God, I suppose. Sexual sins are just another type of sin, after all, not super-duper extra-special ones, like some of the less sophisticated elements in Christianity (our Attorney General springs immediately to mind in that regard) seem to imagine, and we all sin at various times.
You did a marvelous job of explaining that Kevin. Better than I could have done.
This does lead to a potentially interesting question, however. Does "swinging," consensual "wife-swapping" and the like constitute some form of "lesser adultery," or whatnot? Despite whatever Christians may think of such activities, it does seem to be somewhat different from traditional notions of adultery. Or is there some other term for this kind of transgression?[/QUOTE]
Briefly - No. Absolutely