Scalia Rejects Concept Of Religious Neutrality
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One of our bedrock First Amendment principles is the government being neutral on religion, but that isn’t how Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia sees it.
Scalia was speaking Saturday at Archbishop Rummel High School in Metairie, Louisiana.
Scalia, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, has consistently been one of the court’s more conservative members.
He told the audience at the Catholic school that there is “no place” in the country’s constitutional traditions for the idea that the state must be neutral between religion and its absence.
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.