The judge who said NO - to homosexual marriage
photograph of the justices, cropped to show Justice Scalia (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Scalia’s significance lies in his commitment to originalism , also known as textualism — the belief that the Constitution of the United States is to be read and understood and applied in keeping with the language, syntax, and vocabulary of its text as understood to be intended by the framers. This was how the Supreme Court had operated for decades, without even having to express originalism as a method. All that changed in modern decades as the Court and the nation’s liberal legal culture adopted an understanding of the Constitution as an evolving document that was to be interpreted in light of current social needs — even if this required the abandonment of the Constitution as a regulative document. " But much of the torrential outpouring of acid hatred over the past weekend is by activists who still sting from Justice Scalia ’s dissent from the Obergefell v. Hodges decision legal