I’m not sure what percentage of orgies involve sodomy (I guess Antonin is using the broadest legal definition), or how inherently relaxing orgies are. That’s outside the scope of my experience. What I do know is that Scalia is a creep.
Scalia decried his own court’s recent overturning of a state anti-sodomy law, joking that he personally believes “sexual orgies eliminate tension and ought to be encouraged,” but said a panel of judges is not inherently qualified to determine the morality of such behavior.
This juvenile analysis of the merits of laws that ban consensual sex between same-sex couples is stunning coming from a member of our highest court. For Scalia, sodomy can be a fun, group experience…but it can also be a criminal activity. He says it is not up to judges to determine whether American citizens have an inherent right to engage in consensual sexual activities because judges have no special insight into moral questions.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia railed against the era of the “judge-moralist,” saying judges are no better qualified than “Joe Sixpack” to decide moral questions such as abortion and gay marriage.
“Anyone who thinks the country’s most prominent lawyers reflect the views of the people needs a reality check,” he said during a speech to New England School of Law students and faculty at a Law Day banquet on Wednesday night.
It’s not a judge’s job to worry about the morality of sodomy. It their job to determine the rights of individual citizens. Scalia is too much of a homophobe and orgy enthusiast to even take the question seriously.
