MI: “Scalia Defends Gay, Abortion, Gun Rulings at First Baptist”

Jackson Free Press: “If the Supreme Court takes cues from foreign law, it cannot do so selectively, Scalia argued. He pointed to the Court’s 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which found state laws banning sodomy to be unconstitutional and in which he dissented. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in that case cited a 1981 decision of the European Court of Human Rights to argue that Western civilization did not uniformly condemn homosexuality. Among non-European countries, laws prohibiting homosexuality are more common, Scalia pointed out, meaning that the Court had arbitrarily selected European precedent to justify its decision.”