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...tactics it's using to keep the former British colony in check only seem to strengthen support for its opponents. Last summer, when the Hong Kong government tried to introduce a draconian antisubversion law, half a million people took to the streets. In an attempt to quell the dissent, Beijing allowed the law to be shelved. But many Hong Kongers responded by demanding the direct election of their Chief Executive?currently chosen by a narrow, pro-Beijing electoral college?by 2007, the earliest date allowed by the territory's constitution...
...Justice Anthony M. Kennedy insisted that the case "does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship homosexual persons seek to enter." In a concurrence, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the "traditional institution of marriage" was not in play. But in his furious dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warned that the ruling would nonetheless lead to challenges not only to state laws that ban same-sex marriage but also to those that prohibit "adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality and obscenity." And, for that matter, says Don Wildmon, president of the Mississippi-based American...
...short end of a 7-2 decision, Justice Antonin Scalia writes compellingly in his dissent: “When the State makes a public benefit generally available, that benefit becomes part of the baseline against which burdens on religion are measured; and when the State withholds that benefit from some individuals solely on the basis of religion, it violates the Free Exercise Clause no less than if it had imposed a special tax...[Davey] seeks only equal treatment—the right to direct his scholarship to his chosen course of study, a right every other Promise Scholar enjoys...
...need not delve too far into modern popular culture to perceive a trendy disdain for deep religious conviction,” he wrote later in the dissent...
Similar sentiments were expressed by Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the dissent with Justice Clarence Thomas...