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Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…Justice Antonin Scalia died while on a hunting expedition with several prominent members of a 300-year-old Bohemian secret society, the Order of St. Hubertus. The owner of the hunting lodge where he passed away is a prominent member of this order, as was Scalia’s traveling companion. The order’s motto “Deum Diligite Animalia Diligentes” means “Honoring God by honoring His creatures.” There’s certainly a bitterness to the notion of “honoring” God’…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, where engaging in homosexual acts remains illegal. Reuters’ Tisetso Motsoeneng notes: Homosexuality remains taboo in many African societies where some religious groups have branded it a corrupting import from the West. Nigeria passed a draconian anti-gay law this year and Uganda is debating similar legislation. Italy: Catholic Church Ban Fails to Squelch Gay-Themed Film We noted last week that the Catholic Church had banned the gay-themed “Weeke…

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…y. Father Dennis Gordon, for one, pastor of the St. Joan of Arc in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, says that “a lot of traditionalists took it that he was talking about them,” allowing himself a smile. Father Dennis Gordon Seated in his modest parish office, resplendent in a traditional black Roman cassock, Gordon worried that the remarks might make his job, and that of his order—“to be a bridge between traditionalists and the Church”—a little bit harder. A…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

As the Scalia-less Supreme Court gets ready to hear the latest challenge to the contraceptive mandate, almost two years to the day after it heard the historic Hobby Lobby case, you could be forgiven for thinking that the case is all about the Little Sisters of the Poor. The last few weeks have seen an onslaught of opinion pieces seeking to ensure that the good sisters are the public face of the case, a strategy designed to capitalize on goodwill…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…. But looking at the data again suggests a more complicated picture, and challenges this evangelical spin. While it’s true that Trump’s support from evangelicals decreases the more they go to church—dropping from almost 55% among the “never/seldom” crowd to about 35% from the “weekly” attenders—that decline isn’t the whole story. Even among weekly churchgoers, Trump still comes out ahead of his competitors. Evangelicals argue that at least part of…

From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism

By Andrew Monteith

…es from the original Drug War that would permit authorities to prosecute even mild participation in drug use, such as handing someone a syringe, as a poisoning homicide. Cox is correct to point out that “poisoning” was a trope of the early Drug War but, along with many professional historians, there is one detail her article gets wrong. Although Nixon is often credited with starting the Drug War (and he did in fact escalate federal antidrug effort…