Homophobe Supreme

"Justice Antonin Scalia, who spearheaded the Supreme Court's hard-line right turn, didn't always follow his own best advice. In his dissent to Romer v. Evans, a 1996 case concerning discrimination against LGBTQ people, he wrote: 'It is our moral heritage that one should not hate any human being or class of human beings.' But in the same dissent, he attacked same-sex attraction as 'reprehensible' and compared it to 'murder,' 'polygamy,' and 'cruelty to animals.'

Scalia's bile toward LGBTQ people spilled into his 2003 dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, in which he sided with the 'many Americans [who] do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools,or as boarders in their home.' He also posited that these Americans were guarding themselves from 'a lifestyle that they believe to  be immoral and destructive,' and equated homosexuality with the 'recreational use of heroin.'

Scalia's judicial legacy -- or, in his grandiose phrase, his 'moral heritage' -- demonstrated a belligerent contempt for LGBTQ people that looks more archaic (and repulsive) with each passing year. We can only look forward to the day -- coming sooner rather than later -- that it will be consigned, with supreme justice, to the annals of dead-letter law." [1]

ADDENDUMS:
*Tom Tomorrow's Thoughts on Military Might - "Among the matters deserving critical scrutiny is Washington's persistent bipartisan belief in military might as an all-purpose problem solver." "Making a show of supporting the troops takes precedence over serious consideration of what they are continuously being asked to do." "Nuclear policy has long since moved into the realm of theology. Much as the Christian faith derives from a Trinity consisting of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, so nuclear theology has its own Triad, comprised of manned bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and submarine-launched missiles."

*Nuclear Armageddon - More than 2,000 nuclear warheads are on trigger alert. On at least five occasions since 1979 either Moscow or Washington prepared to launch nuclear war in the mistaken belief it was under attack. If even 300 Russian warheads got through, a 2007 study showed that 75 to 100 million people would be killed and the entire U.S. economic structure destroyed. If all of the warheads on alert were fired, it would put 150 million tons of soot into the upper atmosphere, creating a new Ice Age in a matter of days. [2]

*U.S. Adopts Unique Israeli Tactic - The U.S. has adopted the Israeli battlefield tactic in its fight against ISIS: exploding a missile above a building to warn civilians inside. This has been called "knock-on-the-roof" operations. Air force Major General Peter E. Gersten, deputy commander for operations and intelligence for the anti-ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve, described an operation to get an ISIS finance operative ("finance emir"): "We went as far as actually to put a Hellfire on the top of the building and  air-burst it so it wouldn't destroy the building, simply knock on the roof to ensure that she (an observed female) and the children were out of the building. "

Footnotes
[1] Natalie Pattillo, "Homophobe Supreme," The Nation, March 7, 2016.

[2] Ira Helfand (Syndicated by PeaceVoice), "Put the Threat of Nuclear War Back on Your Radar," peaceworker.com, February 17, 2016.