WASHINGTON — Mere seconds after he emerged from his chambers at the US Supreme Court earlier today, Justice Antonin Scalia, who ruled that the proponents of California's Proposition 8 had no standing to defend their homophobic constitutional amendment, was propositioned by gay-rights activist Malcolm Lazin.
“Justice, since you let stand the District Court decision invalidating Prop 8, what do you say?”
But Scalia brushed Lazin aside, pointing out that he had just read from the bench his scathing rebuke of his five colleagues who held DOMA unconstitutional.
“I've never been ambivalent about anything,” Scalia explained to a breathless solitary reporter, “and I'm not starting now.”
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