Nation IN BRIEF : MISSISSIPPI : Scalia Chides Elite for Rejecting Faith

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia chided educated professionals for rejecting religious notions about miracles and the resurrection of Christ. During a speech at a Christian prayer breakfast in Jackson, Miss., the 60-year-old Roman Catholic judge said religious people must endure the insult of being branded as “simple minded” in educated circles in the United States. “Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned,” Scalia told about 700 law students, attorneys and judges who packed Jackson’s First Baptist Church.