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?Original Sin: Scalia Unplugged?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Andrew Cohen has posted this attack piece on CBS that includes this excerpt: ?Are you a champion of a lost cause,? Robinson sympathetically asked. ?I?m not optimistic,? Scalia responded with all the drama of a television preacher. ?I?ll put it that way. I?m certainly fighting back to get to where we used to be . . . ?But I have to say it?s a hard fight because the other philosophy is so alluring, I mean, what a wonderful feeling that whatever you think the Constitution ought to say it says. If you think it ought to contain a right to same-sex marriage, it does,? Scalia added, ?if you think it ought to contain a right to abortion, it does; a right to suicide, it does? Anything you hate is forbidden by the Constitution. Everything you love is required. It?s hard to talk people out of that,? Scalia said . . .

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).