By Jonathon Van Maren In the Republic of Ireland, the news has gone from bad to worse. From the Iona Institute: Minister Simon Harris has now a more fleshed out version of the upcoming abortion law and it is even worse than the previous the more bare-bones heads of legislation published a few months ago. The…
By Jonathon Van Maren The resignation of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court of the United States has been, in many ways, a clarifying moment. As progressives begin to realize that there is a discernable path to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, they have abruptly abandoned any semblance of nuance on the abortion…
By Jonathon Van Maren One of the few pleasures one gets from Michael Coren’s sad shtick, in which he incessantly attacks his former customers, is that very few people have bought into his “total conversion to the Left” story (besides a few LGBT activists for whom he is a useful idiot.) With Coren’s latest outraged…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – With Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s repeal of Kathleen Wynne’s 2015 sex education curriculum—it will be temporarily replaced with the previous (and also Liberal-created) curriculum while consultations with parents are held—LGBT activists have melted down. The accusations are typical: the Progressive Conservatives have been accused of “endangering children” in…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 13, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – On February 24, the Colosseum in Rome was illuminated in scarlet red to remember Christians being persecuted around the world, the eerie crimson illumination representing the blood of millions who had died, or are still suffering today. Presumably, the Colosseum was selected because it has long…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 12, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — I’m often told, when I address the transgender ideology, that it is an exaggeration to claim that trans activists actually wish to impart their ideology to children. Surely, people say, all trans activists really want to do is help teenagers who are grappling with genuine issues of gender…
By Jonathon Van Maren In 2009, the liberal lioness of the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sat down with Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine for a freewheeling conversation on a range of issues, including the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. During the course of that discussion, the notorious RBG noted…
By Jonathon Van Maren It appears that Doug Ford intends to keep his promise on the Ontario sex education curriculum—and is responding to calls by organizations like Parents as First Educators to dispense with Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed right out of the gate. According to the Toronto Star, Wynne’s curriculum has already been tossed out: Students…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 11, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Across North America, the debate surrounding sex education continues to swirl through the schools. Parental protests are popping up in British Columbia to voice disagreement with the SOGI curriculum, Parents as First Educators are pushing the Doug Ford government to roll back the radical sex-ed of the…
By Jonathon Van Maren About a year ago, I wrote a column explaining why Tomi Lahren, the beach-blonde talking head who was then working for The Blaze, was wrong about abortion. Lahren had just gone on The View and announced that she was pro-choice, attempting to make the case that since she was for the…