I know I shouldn't let myself get all wound up about this, but this is just nuts. It's like talking a huge step backwards…
Reading from the Bible on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch endorsed a federal judicial nominee who wrote that wives should have a subordinate role in marriage, with the Utah Republican emphasizing “millions and millions of people will agree with” that view.
And my favourite quote from that article: Hatch also discounted criticism over a 1980 letter Holmes wrote to a newspaper arguing that rape victims should not be allowed to have abortions because “conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami.” Holmes has since apologized for the comment.
Original link here: http://166.70.44.66/2004/Jul/07072004/utah/181590.asp
Hatch is also the asshat who's been ramroding legislation in the US favorable to the RIAA/MPAA on copyright law. Basically, if those bills go through, kiss fair use goodbye. Now I don't really care what happens in the US, to be quite honest. I do care what happens this side of the border and stupidity like that can just be an evil precedent.