Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia toyed with University of Colorado students this week about when — or if — the nation’s highest court will take up a same-sex marriage case.Â
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent Wednesday in Colorado, addressing students at a conservative Christian college and at the University of Colorado. The longest-serving member of the Supreme Court rattled many Americans when he announced that there’s nothing in the Constitution that states government cannot favor one religion over another, or religion as a whole over secularism.
But Scalia also made news when he responded to questions about same-sex marriage.Â
On Monday, the Court met in a closed door secret conference, as they do several times a year, to discuss which cases to hear, or to grant certiorari. Many court watchers on both sides of the debate had hoped the Court would announce it was granting certiorari to one of five same-sex marriage cases, but it did not. The Court also did not state it will not hear any of the cases, and analysts expect the court to hear at least one, probably this year.
Scalia was asked by students at the University of Colorado when the Court might take up a same-sex marriage case.
“I know when, but I’m not going to tell you,†the Wall Street Journal reports he replied. “Soon! Soon!†he added.
Scalia, according to the Daily Camera, also reportedly told students that “homosexual sodomy,” along with the death penalty, abortion, and assisted suicide, are not even “remotely close” to the nation’s “most pressing questions.”
Kristen Wyatt, a reporter for the AP, live-tweeted some of Scalia’s remarks:
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