Antonin Scalia Says On Eve Of Gay Marriage Rulings: Constitution Doesn’t Protect Gay Sex


On Top Magazine | June 23, 2013

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday told a group of lawyers that there is no right to ‘homosexual conduct’ in the United States Constitution.

Scalia made his remarks while addressing the North Carolina Bar Association in Asheville, North Carolina.  The high court is expected to release two decisions related to gay nuptials next week.

(Related: SCOTUS rulings on Prop 8, DOMA likely this week.)

In a speech, titled Mullahs of the West: Judges as Moral Arbiters, Scalia listed gay rights as among the issues that should be decided by the public and not unelected judges, the Charlotte Observer reported.

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