{"id":7231,"date":"2013-06-26T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2013-06-26T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:03:00","slug":"excuses-are-not-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7231","title":{"rendered":"Excuses Are Not Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This from Slate…<\/p>\n

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Scalia the Mullah: The justice’s misunderstanding of morality, and how it leads him astray in cases about homosexuality.<\/a><\/h3>\n

In a speech last week titled “Mullahs of the West: Judges as Moral Arbiters,” Justice Antonin Scalia told<\/a> the North Carolina Bar Association that the court has no place acting as a “judge moralist” in issues better left to the people. Since judges aren’t qualified\u2014or constitutionally authorized\u2014to set moral standards, he argued, the people should decide what’s morally acceptable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and so on. \u00a0 Nathanial Frank pegs it at the end of this piece, thusly:<\/p>\n

Morality is not just whatever views a majority has long held, and it’s not simply what you learned on your mother’s knee or whatever it says in your faith’s scripture. Moral belief is a grounded judgment about what harms or helps living things.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine) \u00a0 That. \u00a0 Which leads to this: \u00a0 Scalia, like a lot of homophobes, does not have a misunderstanding about morality; he has an assortment of smokescreens he hides his prejudices behind, that he calls morality.<\/p>\n

They do that in the kook pews and that is why their moral judgements seem so haphazard and contradictory: They’re not making moral judgements, they’re jerking their knees, dancing from one thing to another to whatever tune their prejudices call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This from Slate… Scalia the Mullah: The justice’s misunderstanding of morality, and how it leads him astray in cases about homosexuality. In a speech last week titled “Mullahs of the West: Judges as Moral Arbiters,” Justice Antonin Scalia told the North Carolina Bar Association that the court has no place acting as a “judge moralist” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[140,41,6],"class_list":["post-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bigot-morality","tag-prejudice","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}