(b.March 11, 1936), is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, nominated in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan. He graduated from Harvard, 1960, and began practicing with a Cleveland law firm. In 1967, he began teaching at the University of Virginia Law School. He served in both the Nixon and Ford administrations, being the Assistant Attorney General, 1971\u201377. He taught at the University of Chicago Law School, 1977\u201382; and was served as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 1982\u201386.<\/p>\n
On April 9, 1996, in an address that gained national attention, Antonin Scalia spoke at the Mississippi College Law School. Pointing out that the word \u201ccretin,\u201d or \u201cfool\u201d is derived from the French word for \u201cChristian,\u201d3883 he continued:<\/p>\n
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. \u2026 We are fools for Christ\u2019s sake. \u2026 We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. \u2026 <\/p>\n
The \u201cwise\u201d do not investigate such silliness. \u2026 They do not believe. \u2026 <\/p>\n
One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.3884<\/p>\n
To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. \u2026 Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.3885<\/p>\n
The \u201cworldly wise\u201d just will not have anything to do with miracles \u2026 [assuming] everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made us by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.3886<\/p>\n
In the 1992 case of Lee v. Weisman; 120 L. Ed. 2d 467, 509 (1992), Scalia, J. (dissenting), Justice Antonin Scalia stated:<\/p>\n
The Court lays waste a longstanding American tradition of nonsectarian prayer to God at public celebrations. \u2026 <\/p>\n
There is simply no support for the proposition that the officially sponsored nondenominational invocation and benediction read by Rabbi Gutterman\u2014with no one legally coerced to recite them\u2014violated the Constitution of the United States. <\/p>\n
To the contrary, they are so characteristically American they could have come from the pen of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln himself. \u2026 <\/p>\n
That obvious fact recited the graduates and their parents may proceed to thank God, as American have always done, for the blessings He has generously bestowed on them and their country.3887<\/p>\n
Our Nation\u2019s protection, that fortress which is our Constitution, cannot possibly rest upon the changeable philosophical predilections of the Justices of this Court, but must have deep foundations in the historic practices of our people.3888<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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