@bi4smooth said in US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hospitalized:
I agree @hubrys was a little hyperbolic in his depiction of Justice Thomas believing that the US should have a religion (after all, he is an originalist) - but he certainly DOES think religion (and specifically christian beliefs) should play a larger role in US law and policy.
Justice Thomas notoriously does not believe in the Incorporation Doctrine, i.e., the judicially created legal framework that interprets the 5th and 14th Amendments as having incorporated the Bill of Rights against the states. In Thomas's judicial philosophy, the First Amendment applies only and exclusively to the Federal Government, not state governments. If Georgia wants to make Baptist its official religion, then it can do so under Thomas's interpretation of the Constitution. If Utah wants to make Mormonism its official religion, then it can do so. You can Google and read for yourself his dissent in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.
As an attorney that has both studied Constitutional law as well as practiced it, I have no doubts about what Thomas's judicial philosophy is. You can Google it yourself. It shouldn't be hard to find explanations. His perspective is unique amongst his fellow justices. It is why he so often concurs with the results reached by the Conservative majority, but does not agree with their reasoning.
As for believing gay should be illegal, he dissented in Lawrence v. Texas which struck down anti-gay sodomy laws (previously upheld by the SCOTUS in Bowers v. Hardwick).