Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Did Justice Scalia just disqualify himself as a judge?

Via New Yorker's Andy Borowitz, SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia just offered to school Pope Francis in how to pass judgment on gay people. 

"If he’s having trouble judging homosexuals, well, then I’m his man; I have over a quarter century of professional experience. 
Once he spends a few weeks watching the master at work, I’m sure he’ll get the hang of it. 
I wasn't great at judging homosexuals my first year in the job, either, but now I can do it without thinking."
Firstly, Scalia has just explained to us that he already has a judicial bias against gay people; he didn't say that he understands gay people, but that he knows how to judge them.  Secondly, he's telling us that he's been prejudicially biased against gay people for 25 years.  Thirdly, he inflated himself above that of the Pope by challenging the Pope's abilities, which is an apostasy of Catholic catechism, as explained by V-II:
"[The Pope's] definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly held irreformable, for they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, an assistance promised to him in blessed Peter."
Pope Francis did not say that gay sex was morally right; he said that he is insufficient to God, to judge the conscience of gay people.  Scalia's retort is to put aside such humility and dispositively judge gay people solely to his personal moral construct, and nothing else (I know God's will, therefore I am perfect in judgement of gay people).

Furthermore, while he's obviously being sarcastic, the fact that he willingly made his contempt for the Pope public, shows that he has elevated himself above the Pope.  That he refers to himself as "master" is instructive in this regard, as Scalia professes to be Alpha.

Antonin Scalia, through his own actions and ego, has committed apostasy and violated the oath of his office, in one fell swoop.  Good enough reasons to impeach him, don't you think?  Too bad though, that the House of Representatives -- where impeachment trials are carried out -- is controlled by a crowd that is partial towards this apostate.


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