Scalia: ‘jawdropping’ decision declares traditional marriage supporters ‘enemies of the human race’
In a scathing dissenting opinion released yesterday, Justice Antonin Scalia lambasted his fellow Supreme Court Justices for striking down a critical part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and predicted that it will only be a matter of time before the court finds a Constitutional right to gay “marriage.” Scalia labeled Wednesday’s decision “jaw-dropping,” calling it “an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s Representatives in Congress and the Executive .” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia He said that the founding fathers created a judiciary with limited power in order to guard the people's "right to self-rule against the black-robed supremacy that today’s majority finds so attractive.” In the majority decision , authored by Justice Kennedy , the Court struck down the provision in the Clinton-era DOMA that prohibited the federal government from providing the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples who had been “married” in a state wher