Supreme Court Justice Scalia Dissents With The DOMA Decision

Not surprisingly, SCOTUS declined to rule on California’s Proposition 8. If SCOTUS mandates that Federal benefits for wedded, same-sex couples are Constitutional, what argument is there against same sex marriage at all? The answer is “nothing.” Justice Scalia wasn’t shy about tackling that issue and “outing” the Court for establishing an underhanded precedent:

It takes real cheek for today’s majority to assure us, as it is going out the door, that a constitutional requirement to give formal recognition to same-sex marriage is not at issue here — when what has preceded that assurance is a lecture on how superior the majority’s moral judgment in favor of same-sex marriage is to the Congress’s hateful moral judgment against it. I promise you this: The only thing that will “confine” the Court’s holding is its sense of what it can get away with.

And, finally:

… the challenge in the end proves more than today’s Court can handle. Too bad …We might have covered ourselves with honor today, by promising all sides of this debate that it was theirs to settle and that we would respect their resolution. We might have let the People decide. But that the majority will not do so … the Court has cheated both sides (of the debate) … We owed both of them better.

Today’s ruling confirms this Supreme Court’s disgraceful record; more like black-robed weasels than Justices. Justice Scalia dissented with this decision. We all should.

Image: Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; source: Antonin Scalia – The Oyez Project; author: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States