04/13/2006
Students Stage Scalia Kiss-IN
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made an appearance at University of Connecticut's law school yesterday, where he told students his proudest moment as a judge was not being "chased off" a case involving his hunting buddy Dick Cheney. That's his proudest moment? How pathetic.
Maybe he would have felt differently if Cheney had shot him in the face.
Anyway, some students took the liberty of setting up a same-sex kissing booth outside the hall where Scalia was speaking, as protest against his comments on gays, minorities, and women: "'His visit opened a lot of conversation on this campus,' said third-year law student Colby Smith, who was wearing an 'I Kiss Boys' T-shirt. 'We want to make sure people understand what the concerns are with him, and why his views are particularly offensive.'
That's Smith above (right), kissing fellow student Doug Heim.
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"commander in chief" returns tonight at 10pm on ABC...watch it or tivo it or both! please tell everyone so the Repugs cannot use low interest against a 'female president' as press...like Drudge is doing!
Posted by: commander in chief | Apr 13, 2006 10:33:59 AM
sure... we'll get right on it.
Posted by: tom | Apr 13, 2006 11:01:39 AM
I thought they were "fishing" buddies...
Posted by: Myackie | Apr 13, 2006 11:22:41 AM
Actually, I'm on the right.
:-)
Thanks for posting the piece, though!
Posted by: colby | Apr 13, 2006 1:45:08 PM
Nothing could better illustrate the pitiful, impotent state of the US gay rights movement than anyone, let alone someone with brains enough [?] to be a third-year law student, thinking that a "kiss in" is a worthy, effective response to our Supreme Court's version of Goebbels. Where's SoulForce and the ghosts of real activists-past when we need them?
Posted by: Leland | Apr 13, 2006 2:37:42 PM
That's ridiculous! If Scalia wants his failure to recuse himself, when it would have been reasonable to do so, to be his legacy...let him have it! When his story is told by historians in the future, his heirs may not be quite as proud. One would think he could at least demonstrate some of the long established decorum for Supreme Court Justices...after all he loves to tell us he is a strict constructionist.
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Posted by: Daniel DiRito | Apr 13, 2006 3:14:46 PM
"and why his views are particularly offensive.' "
to play the devil's advocate - couldn't someone say that YOUR views are particularly offensive to him or her?
Posted by: rachel | Apr 13, 2006 4:04:00 PM
"...pitiful, impotent..." are not the words I would use to describe Messrs. Smith, Heim and the womyn gathered with them. The words do, however, have a particular applicability to people marching onto private colleges where the "religious" operators have every right to impose their own set of morals on the people who choose to attend the schools. Thank Dog, there are people staging kiss-ins rather than trespassing onto private property.
Posted by: JT | Apr 13, 2006 5:07:27 PM
Smith and Heim both look pretty kissable to me.
Posted by: Jay Croce | Apr 13, 2006 10:45:09 PM
Rachel - one could certainly argue that my views (that being gay is normal, i.e. not immoral) are offensive to others, but I've never equated Scalia's marriage with that of an incestuous relationship or with bestiality. I've never suggested Scalia's relationship be outlawed in the same way that heroin use and prostitution are.
The difference, I believe, is that Scalia uses his position as a Supreme Court Justice to personally attack people and groups that he dislikes. THAT'S what's offensive.
Posted by: Colby | Apr 14, 2006 10:08:12 AM
Mr. Smith: I must say, given your assertion from yesterday that you are on the right, your comments seem more liberal...in fact on the left. Now, I know that there are degrees of "conservative", just as there are degrees of "liberal", but I think you are living in serious denial if you are continuing to call yourself on the right when you so passionately critique Justice Scalia, who truly is on the right.
Shit, my tongue pierced my cheek, again.
Posted by: JT | Apr 14, 2006 2:52:37 PM
Dear god no, I most certainly never meant to imply that I'm on the right politically. When the photo was first posted, the caption read that I was on the left, when actually, just in the photo, I was on the right. Other than that, I'm about as left as left gets.
Posted by: Colby | Apr 17, 2006 12:57:54 PM