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Saturday, January 2, 2016

Scalia has been around for too damned long.

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COMMENTS: 
*  OK, it is past time for this crazy old coot to retire. If Scalia has lost his senses to the point that he no longer understands "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" or doesn't remember the writings of Madison and Jefferson, then it is time for him to go and feed birds. "God has been good to America"? Give me a break, if it weren't for the secularization placed into the Constitution, the United States would still be under the thumb of the Church of England and Papists like Scalia would never have been allowed to practice their religion.
*  Myths, magic and superstitions.  Religion poisons everything.
*  Past time for this twatwaffle to be put out to pasture. Vote blue in the next election. A Republiscum president will give us a bunch more like this waste of space.
*  I have no quarrel with people mentioning God in their speeches. It's when they treat us nonbelievers as though we have less rights than they do that I will complain.
*  Scalia gives today's right a bad name but then again he fits right in with the far right loony tunes.
*   Scalia is a proud bigot and now he says he believes in god. That makes perfect sense...the more religious, the more hateful and violent one becomes. Islam has ISIS, America has the Tea Party. And while our founding fathers were Deists who believed in a god, they didn't believe in the bible nor did they follow any particular religion. And they wrote the Constitution to both protect religion from government and protect citizens from religion.
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Scalia dismisses concept of religious neutrality in speech
By Rebecca Santana, January 2, 2016

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country's constitutional traditions and that God has been good to the U.S. exactly because Americans honor him.

Scalia was speaking at a Catholic high school in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana. Scalia, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 is the court's longest serving justice. He has consistently been one of the court's more conservative members.

He told the audience at Archbishop Rummel High School that there is "no place" in the country's constitutional traditions for the idea that the state must be neutral between religion and its absence.

"To tell you the truth there is no place for that in our constitutional tradition. Where did that come from?" he said. "To be sure, you can't favor one denomination over another but can't favor religion over non-religion?"

He also said there is "nothing wrong" with the idea of presidents and others invoking God in speeches. He said God has been good to America because Americans have honored him.

Scalia said during the Sept. 11 attacks he was in Rome at a conference. The next morning, after a speech by President George W. Bush in which he invoked God and asked for his blessing, Scalia said many of the other judges approached him and said they wished their presidents or prime ministers would do the same.

"God has been very good to us. That we won the revolution was extraordinary. The Battle of Midway was extraordinary. I think one of the reasons God has been good to us is that we have done him honor. Unlike the other countries of the world that do not even invoke his name we do him honor. In presidential addresses, in Thanksgiving proclamations and in many other ways," Scalia said.

"There is nothing wrong with that and do not let anybody tell you that there is anything wrong with that," he added.

Scalia's comments Saturday come as the court prepares to hear arguments later this year in a case that challenges part of President Barack Obama's health care law and whether it adequately shields faith-based hospitals, colleges and charities from having to offer contraceptive coverage to their employees.

Scalia is often a lightning rod for controversy on the court.

In December he came under fire for comments he made during an affirmative action case, questioning whether some black students would benefit from going to a "slower-track school" instead of Texas' flagship campus in Austin.
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