When most of think of
the supreme haters of LGBT equality on the Supreme Court, we think of Justice
Antonin Scalia and his overtly homophobic opinions comparing homosexuality to
murder, polygamy, animal abuse, drug addiction, incest, and prostitution. However, according to Mark Joseph Stern of Slate,
in recent years, with a cultivated air of civility, Justice Samuel Alito has in
fact emerged as a far more consummate culture warrior than Scalia. Whereas
Scalia is bombastic and minatory, Alito is artful and prescient, and in the
wake of the Obergefell decision he is
already preparing for the coming constitutional showdown over LGBT
equality. Mark joins me today to talk
all about Justice Samuel Alito and how he is quietly planning the next battle. You can also follow Mark on twitter.
Earlier this summer, Pope Francis apologized for the
Catholic Church’s role in the colonial invasion of the Americas and
the violent subjugation of its native peoples.
Which is why it may seem strange that today at the Basilica of the
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, he canonized
Father JunÃpero Serra, the founder and most famed symbol of the system of
missions in the Spanish colony of Alta California; which from their
establishment in the late 1760s until Mexico declared independence and
secularized them in the 1820s, formed a network of forced-labor camps where
Native Americans were imprisoned and brutalized. Joining me today to discuss JunÃpero Serra
and his controversial sainthood is Christine Grabowski, an anthropologist and the Principal of Grabowski &
Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that conducts anthropological, historical,
and genealogical research and analysis on diverse issues for Native Americans.
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