After Chief Justice Roberts voted to uphold Obamacare, some thought this was a sign that he was not always ideologically motivated and that he might approach the DOMA and the Prop 8 cases with an open mind. But given that he made profoundly stupid comments both yesterday and today that display a kind of mental process that we’re all familiar with--the tendency of bigots to try to justify their prejudices with specious arguments--I’m afraid that we can’t count on Roberts being fair-minded. Yesterday he claimed recognizing that same-sex couples have a right to get married would be like forcing a child to call someone he or she doesn’t like a friend, thus changing the definition of friendship. And today he suggested that LGBT people are so political powerful that they don’t need protection from the courts. And this is supposed to be someone with a great legal mind?