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Both Eastman and Leo are, it's reported, members of the powerful, wealthy, secretive, right-wing Catholic cult Opus Dei, which has long been inimical to democracy and has strong theocratic aspirations.

A number of the Supremes who constitute the right-wing Catholic cabal now controlling the court have Opus Dei ties. (The one non-Catholic member of the cabal, Gorsuch, was raised Catholic.)

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William Lindsey :toad: 2y ago

Eastman previously chaired the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay outfit determined to roll back rights for LGBTQ Americans (and LGBTQ people elsewhere in the world). NOM, previously led by Maggie Gallagher, also Catholic, and connected to another leading anti-LGBTQ Catholic activist Robert P. George, has long had close ties to the US Catholic bishops.

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William Lindsey :toad: 2y ago

In short, Eastman's hostility to US democracy and to its endorsement of the rights of minority communities including the LGBTQ community, doesn't arise out of nowhere: it has a specific right-wing Catholic origin, an ideological center also shared by the group of Supremes who now control the Supreme Court.

But good luck getting the mainstream media to report on all of this.

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