@Raised by Horses
"Being "a constitutionalist" is "left-leaning" now?
Interesting."
Particularly when you consider that Scalia was appointed by the poster boy of the Religious Right, Ronnie Raygun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia
Mentioned in the very first sentence, no less. Considering how - in the US Constitution - there is no religious test in running for POTUS (ergo Obama; even if he were a 'Muslim'. QED), then it stands to fucking reason that there's even less restriction, re. religious beliefs, in becoming one of the SCOTUS; illiterate much, olog-hai? Else you would have clued up before shooting your mouth off - whilst your foot's in it.
I'm not even American (I'm British), and I know enough of your Constitution to know that. I know what that document represents, what your country was based on, and therefore the implications for what the USA truly represents in terms of framing human rights legislation as a whole (how it inspires all other countries' conventions & constitutions), thus I'm more of a strict Constitutionalist than you are. Separation of Church and state, and all that jazz (and we Brits have a state religion - the Church of England - no less).
Would you say that White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - who are Republicans, no less - are more strict Constitutionalists than Judge Scalia? Say, for example... Judge John E. Jones III? Personally appointed to the Federal Court in 2002 by no less than George Dumbya Bush himself. He's a Conservative Christian just like you, olog-hai.
...oh yes, that's right. Three years later, he presided over Kitzmiller vs. Dover:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District#Decision
And thus at a stroke, he completely destroyed the Religious Right's educational agenda, in making the teaching of 'Intelligent Design' (effectively Creationism by Stealth) in all accredited US schools not only illegal, but unconstitutional. In one single stroke, he did more for the cause of Atheism in the US than even we Atheists could have imagined. And we didn't have to lift a single finger to do so, such is the lack of foresight of the Religious Right destroying the Religious Right.
Like I say: Is Republican Lutheran Christian Judge Jones less of a strict Constitutionalist than Judge Scalia? Enjoy your Catch-22, olog-hai.
I love the smell of annihilated arguments in the morning. Smells like... victory.
