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== Dissent ==
== Dissent ==
Scalia wrote a dissent to the case, observing how the case really concerned the "[[homosexual agenda]]." Why is the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] picking sides in a political dispute? He reminded the Court of its narrow role in resolving social conflicts, and took a textual view of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] as protecting only against discrimination on the basis of race and gender. Since sexual "orientation" was neither, he said, the legal inquiry was over, and the [[U.S. Constitution]] was silent.
Scalia wrote a dissent to the case, observing how the case really concerned the "[[homosexual agenda]]." Why is the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] picking sides in a political dispute? He reminded the Court of its narrow role in resolving social conflicts, and took a textual view of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] as protecting only against discrimination on the basis of race and gender. Since sexual "orientation" was neither, he said, the legal inquiry was over, and the [[U.S. Constitution]] was silent.
==References==
* [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-1039.ZS.html Text of case, including dissent]
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