Eric Berndt is the NYU law student who, on Tuesday, asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, "Do you sodomize your wife?" Wonkette has posted Berndt's letter to his classmates regarding the incident; it's linked above. In it, we learn that Berndt is gay, recently out of the closet, and ready to speak truth to power. As he explained in his letter:
I wanted to make him and everyone in the room aware of the dehumanizing effect of trivializing such an important relationship. Justice Scalia has no pity for the millions of gay Americans on whom sodomy laws and official homophobia have such an effect, so it is difficult to sympathize with his brief moment of "humiliation," as some have called it.Good work, Eric. Though, as Wonkette hints, it may have been more productive to suggest that Scalia and his wife spend more time engaged in sodomy. Maybe the guy would loosen up a bit.
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Eric Berndt deserves a Medal of Honor for putting a known homophobe and a "jugde'' whose actions undermine our Constitution .. on the hot seat. To have shut off his mike was yet another example of how , under the dictatorship of Bush, we americans have lost our right to free speech.
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