[Vision2020] Justice Scalia Flips the Finger in Church

[Ron Force]

Clarified:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1154AP_Scalia_Gesture.html

...The Boston Herald reported Monday that the justice made "an obscene
gesture under his chin" - which prompted some online reports that Scalia had
used his middle finger.

Untrue.

"It was a hand off the chin gesture that was meant to be dismissive,"
Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.

Scalia, 70, is Italian and known for wisecracks in and out of court.

The sign he used in Boston is frequently used by Italians to express
displeasure with someone - from mild to deep irritation. It is done by
cupping the hand under the chin and flicking the fingers like a backward
wave...

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Ron Force          Moscow ID USA
rforce at moscow.com
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>From United Press International at:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060327-100356-7854r

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Justice Scalia flips the finger in church

BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled
reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a
middle finger to his critics.

A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic
if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues
separating church and state.

"You know what I say to those people?" Scalia replied, making the obscene
gesture and explaining "That's Sicilian."

The 20-year veteran of the high court was caught making the gesture by a
photographer with The Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston's newspaper.

"Don't publish that," Scalia told the photographer, the Herald said.

He was attending a special mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of
the Holy Cross, and afterward was the keynote speaker at the Catholic
Lawyers' Guild luncheon

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