Hardball   |  December 11, 2012

Matthews: Scalia is crossing into ‘troubling territory’

Chris Matthews shares his thoughts on Supreme Court Justice’s Antonin Scalia’s comments comparing opposing homosexuality to opposing murder, and says the culture Scalia sees things from should not be the same place he views the law from.

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anncr: those who grew up like i did, he's a familiar guy. all those years my dad was in columbus, there was guys like justice scalia around. they were at the picnics, christmas parties. my dad's best friend gene shields played his helper. the guy who did that stunning somersault coming down the aisle of the old church hall declaring santa claus is coming. yes, i know guys like scalia. faithful guys who hung out with the boys for whom monday night was holy named and friday night was bowling night. they were old fashioned guys. good guys. family men. while they were democrats and republicans, they were not the kind of guys to drive foreign cars, go to foreign movies, or watch public television. that is the culture i've got to figure justice scalia sees things through when he talks about same-sex marriage and gay people . it's when he talks about the constitution, when he talks about the law, talks about base human freedom that he crosses into troubling territory. why? because the culture he came up in and it's not everybody's. nor is it required to be everybody's. he sees through those eyes that it adheres to his own culture. in a soit that values liberty and equality you