Hey Scalia, Let’s Be Friends
October 8, 2013 by staff
Hey Scalia, Let’s Be Friends, Dear Justice Scalia,
Like everyone on the Internet, I read with interest your recent interview with New York magazine’s Jennifer Senior. Many sections were intriguing, including your firm belief in the existence of the devil and your passing fondness for “Duck Dynasty.”
You’re a fascinating person.
But one passage troubled me deeply.
John D. Sutter
Not because of what they say about you, but because of what they say about me and us and this great country that we call the United States.
It would be easy for me to laugh off the interview — to write a column with a few “argle-bargle” or “fairyland castle” references. All in a day’s work at the digital snark factory, right? More “blurbing things on the Internet,” to borrow your words.
I’m not going to do that.
Because when you, the Supreme Court justice who has power over my rights as a gay citizen, said that you “have friends that I know, or very much suspect, are homosexual,” but that you don’t have any friends who are openly gay, I was at first shocked and then puzzled and then saddened — both for you and for all of us.
“Have any of them come out to you?” Senior asked.
Your response: “No. No. Not that I know of.”
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