Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on
Monday said that the logic behind Supreme Court rulings protecting
gay rights could also apply to child molesters.
During a speech at Georgetown
University, Scalia claimed that such decisions were not rooted in the
U.S. Constitution.
Scalia argued that the logic behind
those decision could also apply to any “unloved” minority,
including child molesters.
“What minorities deserve protection?”
Scalia
rhetorically asked. “What? It's up to me to identify
deserving minorities?”
“What about pederasts? What about
child abusers?”
“This is a deserving minority,” he
said with a sarcastic tone. “Nobody loves them.”
Instead, Scalia said, such decisions
should be left to the democratic process. Only political and
religious minorities are protected by the First Amendment, he
claimed.
“I write the dissents for you guys,”
he joked. “I write my dissents and try to make them not only clear
but interesting and even fun.”