We are not out of line in considering Antonin Scalia, whose prejudices were almost by his own admission impervious to rational argument, a colossal failure as a member of the highest court in the land. And we can even give thanks that the death of a proudly bigoted clown has made way perhaps for a more mature consciousness to take the seat he has vacated. Even if that person is as devout a Catholic as Scalia, he or she need not be so blithely hypocritical and joyously disdainful of those he or she believes are condemned to eternal torment.