From: jeff 

And the Harvard Crimson has apologized for mis-quoting him. He didn't
"take the position" he said "for the sake of argument"
(or close to that, I'm going from memory).

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> So is that really a duck blind that Scalia and Cheney gfo to?
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1317386,00.html
>
> He is the conservative bastion of the US supreme court, a favourite of
> President Bush, and a hunting partner of the vice-president. He has argued
> vociferously against abortion rights, and in favour of anti-sodomy laws.
> But it turns out that there is another side to Justice Antonin Scalia: he
> thinks Americans ought to be having more orgies.
>
> Challenged about his views on sexual morality, Justice Scalia surprised his
> audience at Harvard University, telling them: "I even take the
position that
> sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."
>
> It seems unlikely that this is what President Bush meant when he promised to
> appoint more judges like Scalia to the court, should the opportunity arise.
> Crucially, Justice Scalia is one of the judges in favour of overturning Roe
> v Wade, the landmark judgment protecting abortion as a constitutional right.
>
> One audience member also asked the judge "whether you have any gay friends,
> and, if not, whether you'd like to be my friend," the Harvard Crimson
> newspaper reported.
>
> "I probably do have some gay friends, but I have never pressed
the point,"
> Justice Scalia responded. He offered no clue to the logic behind his claim
> that orgies eliminate social tensions.
>
> Nobody asked him whether he was familiar with Rick Moody's novel The Ice
> Storm, turned into a movie by Ang Lee, which appeared to suggest the exact
> opposite.
>
>

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