By Jonathon Van Maren Trans activists—like many of their friends in the LGBT movement—have a very particular strategy. First, they claim that what they are demanding of society “won’t impact anyone else.” Then, they prove that the opposite is the case—and that they are more than willing to force everyone else in society to do…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve written many times that I believe the trans activists have been pushing too far, too fast, and that rather than forcing society to accept their fundamental premise that gender is fluid, they are instead beginning to trigger a backlash. Our culture was more or less fine with recognizing gay marriage…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 15, 2018 Our second day on the Vote No Roadshow was very encouraging. Leaving the activity centre we were staying at in the bus at 8:15 AM, we headed from town to town through the Westmeath-Longford area, beginning in the tiny town—“It’s a village,” one lady walking past corrected with…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Late last week, I flew with three of my colleagues (one of whom is my wife) to Ireland to work with the Save the 8th Campaign for the last two weeks before the referendum on abortion on May 25, when the Irish people will vote on…
By Jonathon Van Maren My first update from Ireland can be read here. For a history buff, just driving through the Irish countryside is a surreal experience. There are falling-down ruins everywhere—old stone outbuildings, solitary slumping castle walls, and ancient houses with oak trees rising victoriously from within, roofed with nothing but sky. We pulled…
By Jonathon Van Maren We touched down in the Dublin Airport early Saturday morning—my wife, daughter Charlotte, and colleagues Nick and Maaike Rosendal, ready for two weeks of pro-life activism with the Save the Eighth Campaign. Abortion activists have been attempting to roll back Ireland’s Eighth Amendment, which includes specific protections for pre-born babies in…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 11, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Earlier this week, I spoke to a pro-life banquet in the little Saskatchewan town of Estevan, population 10,000. It was one of those prairie small towns where everybody knows everybody, where many people still live within shouting distance of where they were born, and where the local…
By Jonathon Van Maren Noting the pro-abortion bias of the media is at this point so cliché that the point is almost not worth making. Nonetheless, I’d like to make a couple of observation about the double standard that was present yesterday at the March for Life, where abortion activists illegally blocked a legal and…
By Jonathon Van Maren Way back in the day, a few short years ago, being “trans” meant that you felt you were born into the wrong body and wanted to be recognized as the opposite gender. Two pronouns were all that were needed, and the now apparently totalitarian reign of heteronormative binarism was just fine.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Like most social conservatives, I was very disappointed to see that PC leader Doug Ford decided to drop Tanya Granic Allen as a candidate over the weekend, citing the “tone” of some of her past comments. After Granic Allen’s stellar performance during the leadership race and her personal sacrifice in staying…