According to Antonin Scalia, being gay is as bad as murder

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During a question and answer session at Princeton University Monday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made some inflammatory comments about his views on homosexuality.

He was asked to explain his support for bans on sodomy by gay student Duncan Hosie, and his reply has him in hot water.

"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"

Scalia said he wasn't equating sodomy with murder, but instead comparing bans on both actions.

"I'm surprised you aren't persuaded," he said.

Scalia has a history of similar comments: in his time on the Supreme Court, he has written several dissenting opinions in cases involving gay rights and protections.

In 1996, he compared homosexuality to murder writing the dissent in a case in which the court struck down a Colorado anti-gay law.

And in 2003, when the court struck down a Texas law that incriminated gay sex:

With the Supreme Court set to tackle gay marriage by taking up the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 in the first half of 2013, Scalia will have another opportunity to voice his opinions on an issue in which he increasingly finds himself in the minority of Americans.