At an event on Monday, Princeton University freshman asked Supreme Court Justice Scalia why he equated laws banning sodomy with those banning bestiality and murder. Scalia responded, “It’s a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the ‘reduction to the absurd.’ If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?”
Tonight at 10pm ET, we’ll talk to the student, Duncan Hosie, who asked the question. More headlines shaping the rundown:
- Scalia defends comparing laws against homosexuality to murder
- GOP mute as Supreme Court tackles marriage equality
- John Boehner calls for details from Obama
- Haley Barbour on taxes: I’d raise top rates in exchange for reform
- Grover Norquist says he won’t punish lawmakers for ‘impure thoughts’ alone
- Private bargaining, public wrangling in fiscal cliff
- Michigan House passes ‘right to work’ legislation
Sarah Muller