Antonin Scalia Quotes
We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies. There's nothing wrong with that. It is in the best of American traditions, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. I think we have to fight that tendency of the secularists to impose it on all of us through the Constitution.
Scalia, Antonin. Address at Archbishop Rummel High School. Metairie, LA, 2 Jan. 2016.
Kelly Armstrong was a gay man who had committed no crime yet the Assistant Attorney General was following him about, going to his home and accusing him of promoting a “deviant” life style. Shirvell was fired from his job for violation of rules of behavior for law enforcement officers. Armstrong sued Shirvell for violating Michigan’s anti-stalking law. He agreed to drop the suit if Shirvell would apologize and stop stalking him. Shirvell refused. Then a Michigan jury awarded Armstrong $4.5 million in 2012.
Bush was trying to obtain the Republican Presidential Nomination and that party had come under the influence of Protestant Evangelicals who could in effect veto any candidate in the Primary election. Bush, who was already suspect with the Evangelicals, chose to make this statement with the full knowledge that there is no Constitutional citizenship requirement to believe in a god and that a number of the leading founding patriots and founders had been atheists. However his tactics were successful and the following year he was the Republican nominee. Despite this statement, he never acted on it or made it a part of his administration’s principles. Politicians are often placed in these difficult positions where they are pressured into positions not to their liking in order to politically succeed. In this case, he never did more than make the disgraceful statement. He did not adopt any policy of take any action. However, this quotation is unique in American history as the only time an American president ever stated that American citizenship should not be recognized for religious reasons only.
At the time the Algerians leading the impendence movement were very secular, and were committed to modernity, multiculturalism and religious freedom and tolerance. Within Algerian Muslim society, there has been a constant battle against the right wing Islamic extremists and terrorists.
Antonin Gregory Scalia was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the Supreme Court's history. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 by President Donald Trump, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.
