In his typically ferocious dissent from Friday’s marriage equality decision, Justice Antonin Scalia calls the opinion a “threat to American democracy” because it “makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers.” And those “unelected lawyers” are especially unqualified to render an opinion on same-sex marriage because they are “hardly a cross-section of America.” How so? As Scalia explains:
There are many respectable reasons to oppose the justices’ decision today. The court’s lack of evangelicals is not one of them.
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