Scalia on theocracy, and a petition
27 November 2004 by Ron There’s a petition at Petition Online that you can sign, demanding that Justice Scalia recuse himself from all church-state cases due to bias. The most recent public remarks from Scalia prompting this are cited in this piece from the Jerulsalem Post: Scalia in shul: State must back religion. Some tidbits:
Scalia said that the founding fathers never advocated the separation of church and state and that America has prospered because of its religiousness…. “There is something wrong with the principle of neutrality,” said Scalia… “[it] is not neutrality between religiousness and nonreligiousness; it is between denominations of religion”… America believes in “a personal God who takes an interest in the affairs of man,” Scalia said. Quoting a line from Psalms that says the faithful will surely prosper, he added, “I think it is no accident that America has prospered.”
