Scalia: A round-up of the responses

Antonin Scalia

By now you've probably read Justice Antonin Scalia's appalling comments explaining how he justifies equating laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder.  (And if you haven't you can catch up with them here.)

Fortunately, there have been some important responses from, among others:

• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• The Daily Beast
• Salon
• And cartoonist Tom Toles

Of course the most important response will come when all nine justices rule on cases involving the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8.  The night before the Supreme Court decided to take those cases, panelists at AFJ's Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin previewed the issues: