re: #221 Dark_Falcon

Michael Luciano can bray like an ass with the best of them. Believing that Satan is real does not make someone a “religious fanatic”. Nor does the fact that James Madison held different views on matters such as chaplains in the military from Antonin Scalia mean that Mr. Justice Scalia would “hate” President Madison. Justice Scalia is entirely capable of disagreeing with someone without hating them.

Luciano’s piece is overwrought and actively hostile from the get-go. It will not convince anyone who is not already a committed liberal.

I’m not a fan of Luciano, but the fact is that Scalia’s statements were absolutely horrible. He’s explicitly denying the intent of the founders to create a wall of separation between church and state, and I have no idea why you’d defend something like that.

And yes, I do find it very troubling that a Supreme Court justice believes in a literal Satan. This kind of fanaticism has no place in the nation’s highest court, but there it is. Scalia is a prototype right wing nutjob, in a position of great power, and he’s doing a lot of damage to the country.