I must assume that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has a wry sense of humor to go along with his super-sized homophobia. How else are we to understand this?

Late last year the Associated Press (AP) Style Guide, made the decision to ban the use of the word, homophobia as imprecise, yet when it comes to Antonin Scalia, the word is right on the mark as expressed here in this recent quote:

“As Justices of the Supreme Court, we have a sacred duty to check our personal feelings at the door,” he told the Fox News Channel. “In my case, that means putting aside my longstanding and profound fear of homosexuals.”

Justice Scalia added that he was committed “to safeguarding the rights of all Americans—even those I personally find terrifying.”

“I take my role as an impartial arbiter very seriously,” he said. “So when I hear a case, I put all feelings of abhorrence, disgust, and revulsion completely out of my mind.”

The Justice said that when it came to the issue of same-sex marriage he would rely on the Constitution, “which makes no mention of gays whatsoever.”

“Remember, when the framers wrote the Constitution, there were no gays in America,” he said. “They didn’t come here until the nineteen-sixties.”

No matter what you think of Scalia, at least he is being 100% honest about his longstanding homophobia. What I wonder is, how can a person really be unbiased against something that they fear?

I am hoping beyond hope that his comment about gays and the ’60’s was meant as humorously as it sounds.  If not then he really knows nothing abut what he fears.

via Scalia Says Marriage Views Not Affected by Lifelong Fear of Gays : The New Yorker.

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