Justice Antonin Scalia asked, "What great works of art would be taken away from us if we couldn't see minors copulating?" ...
"How about `Romeo and Juliet?'" Justice John Paul Stevens broke in with a smile. As the audience chuckled..., "Justices Weigh Law Barring Virtual Child Pornography" - Linda Greenhouse, N.Y. Times
``That kind of blows my mind. I mean this is something you'd expect some yahoo like, say, a TV preacher, to put out, but isn't Scalia supposed to be some kind of big-deal intellectual or something like that?...'' (WKiernan at concentric.net)
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In the vast medieval dungeons of the US legal community, Scalia is no doubt a shining beacon of light.
But I would ask what great legal principle is asserted by the court's opinion on viewing minors copulating?
Chuck Grimes