Dred Scott

Justice Scalia mentioned on Charlie Rose the Dred Scott decision a week or two ago and my re-reading of Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals after seeing the movie "Lincoln" re-enforces my opinion of how "Authoritarian" thinking lead to a ghastly error in the Supreme Court's record.  I don't think the court  is going to make the same mistake with the gay marriage decisions that it will hear in March of next year. Equal protection under the law and minority rights super trump majority rule and I have no fear that the Justices considering the Constitution to be an enduring document can see it any other way.