Scalia, nominally thought of as rational.

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Scalia calls for traditional interpretation of religious issues

January 26, 2005, 1:01 AM

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says judges should look to tradition and historical practices when deciding religious cases.

Scalia, 68, said judges use what he called "abstractions" -- or judicial tests -- to interpret religious cases when they should be looking to the text of the Constitution itself.

"Tradition and historical practice is stronger" than tests created by the Supreme Court to decided Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause cases, he said.

Scalia would throw away over two hundered years of tradition in favor of a religious tradition? Never mind that the religious "tradition" has been grossly wrong in many of those years. If it's history he wants then he should go back to the early church when abortion was not opposed until the fetus "quickened" and homosexual marriages were blessed by the church for well into the 1300's just the same way heterosexual marriages were. Today's Christianity could not afford holding to history or or the non-homogenous tradition. What was Scalia thinking?