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Letter: Scalia’s decisions not well founded

By Jerry Elliott, Castle Rock
Published: February 23, 2016, 6:00am

There is something evil when you put your religion blindly above the common good, logic and basic human rights. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia life’s filter was his religion, the Catholic Church, which is not good for a country that based itself on freedom of religion.

Like all Republicans, Scalia believes the U.S. Constitution is a dead and stagnant document that cannot be changed. Apparently, he was not aware that both the First and Second Amendments have been modified years ago. The First Amendment, the freedom of speech amendment, does now not allow persons to say or print anything they want. There are things called libel and slander. Furthermore, you cannot walk into a movie theater and yell “terrorists” or “fire” when it’s not true. An organization cannot have mass assembly of people with the local government authorization.

The Second Amendment does not allow fully automatic rifles, live hand grenades, live rocket launchers, mortars, land mines or M-2 machine guns or any functioning machine gun.

Apparently, Scalia didn’t get the memo in law school.

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