Shaken not stirred

Want to know where our Supreme Court's heading? Justice Scalia has hardly been shy about his intent.

Here's his speech at the U of C Divinity School (2002) (you have to scroll down a bit):

If you're too lazy to click the link, here's the money quote (among many, actually):

It seems to me that the reaction of people of faith to this tendency of democracy to obscure the divine authority behind government should be not resignation to it but resolution to combat it as effectively as possible, and a principal way of combating it, in my view, is constant public reminder that - in the words of one of the Supreme Court's religion cases in the days when we understood the religion clauses better than I think we now do - "we are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a supreme being."

This, from a sitting USSC Justice. There are many other equally fantastic statements in the speech -- it's really worth reading in toto.

How should the saner among us respond to such tripe? Here's a quick take from the head of the American Studies Program at Princeton.

On the other hand, since eveyone in the fawning media falls all over themselves proclaiming what a genius Scalia is, he must be right. Maybe democracy indeed is the problem! Damn, that whole Enlightenment thing really wrecked everything! Thankfully, since Scalia's U of C speech, we've now got Alito and Roberts to help nudge us all back to those good old days when religion and politics mixed so well.