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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

"That's Sicilian."
This is too funny not to print in its entirety:
    Justice Scalia flips the finger in church

    BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics.

    A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state.

    "You know what I say to those people?" Scalia replied, making the obscene gesture and explaining "That's Sicilian."

    The 20-year veteran of the high court was caught making the gesture by a photographer with The Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston's newspaper.

    "Don't publish that," Scalia told the photographer, the Herald said.

    He was attending a special mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, and afterward was the keynote speaker at the Catholic Lawyers' Guild luncheon.
I might criticize the Honorable Justice's gesture, but that would violate the norms of cultural relativism.