Antonin Scalia & Gay Group Sex - Not as opposed as you might think? (Yes, Wonkette was on this story last week.)

As Law.com reports today (free registration), the conservative jurist generally thought of as the bain of homosexual rights has taken to joking about orgies in recent public speeches. The website relates that while arguing during a speech at Harvard that judges shouldn't impose their personal mores on citizens, he said, "with a smile":

Let me make it clear that the problem I am addressing is not the social evil of the judicial dispositions I have described. I accept, for the sake of argument, for example, that sexual orgies eliminate social tension and ought to be encouraged.

(No wonder Nino prefers that no one record his remarks.) According to the Harvard Crimson, the "eccentric justice" was using the quip to ridicule a European court decision that struck down British legislation barring group gay sex on the ground that the law intruded upon private life.

P.S. When a member of the Harvard audience rose to ask the justice "whether you have any gay friends, and—if not—whether you'd like to be my friend," Scalia responded "I probably do have some gay friends. I've never pressed the point."