By Jonathon Van Maren The Alberta NDP may come to rue the day they decided to target religious Albertans, as the rumblings of discontent grow louder and social conservatives begin to organize–in many religious communities, for the very first time. Education Minister David Eggen, who is loathed like no other politician in recent memory by…
By Jonathon Van Maen Last month, I reviewed Nigerian pro-life activist Obianuju Ekeocha’s powerful new documentary Strings Attached, which details how population control activists are utilizing foreign aid to wage war on the fertility of African women. One organization that Ekeocha spends a good portion of her film exposing is the UK-based abortion provider Marie…
By Jonathon Van Maren Ideology is trumping biological identification once again–this time in Australia. From the Daily Mail: Landmark gender rights laws have made it through Tasmania’s lower house which include parents having to ‘opt in’ to have a baby’s sex recorded on birth certificates. The House of Assembly passed the legislation, which was proposed…
By Jonathon Van Maren While some pro-life organizations occasionally distribute lists of pro-life celebrities on social media in order to make the anti-abortion cause appear trendy, those lists are generally very short for a very simple reason: The entertainment industry and the stars that populate it are, with only a handful of exceptions, extremely pro-abortion.…
By Jonathon Van Maren November 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Once upon a time, when the Sexual Revolution was in its infancy, social conservatives were mocked for their “family values” and the inherent stodginess that increasingly political phrase seemed to imply. The boring squares with their white picket fences and marriages and (often) string of children…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Washington Post reported some encouraging news earlier today: Abortion rates in the United States are continuing to fall—and the Center for Disease Control noted that pro-life laws were partially responsible for this drop: Fewer U.S. women are having abortions today than at any time since Roe v. Wade, according to…
By Jonathon Van Maren At 12:30 PM Central Standard Time fifty-five years ago today, a section of President John F. Kennedy’s head was blown away by a sniper as he drove through Dealey Plaza in an open motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Minutes before, the fourteen-year-old Jenyce Gush had been standing on the curb with a…
By Jonathon Van Maren On April 6, 1994, the Rwandan Civil War was in its fifth year, but all was quiet. The Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) had been in conflict for years, but international pressure had finally resulted in a ceasefire in 1993, with Juvenal Habyarimana, the second president of Rwanda…
By Jonathon Van Maren Back when he was running for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Doug Ford was crystal clear: “gender identity theory” was a liberal ideology that had no place in schools. Additionally, curriculums were being used by progressives as a way of teaching their ideology to other people’s children.…
By Jonathon Van Maren November 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Over the past decade, attacks on Canada’s Christian communities by LGBT activists have escalated significantly. In Alberta, Education Minister David Eggen is threatening to defund and possibly shut down religious schools that do not accept Gay-Straight alliance clubs. Canada’s Supreme Court recently ruled against Trinity Western…