By Jonathon Van Maren July 30, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Several times over the past year or two I’ve written columns noting that there is a growing backlash to the transgender movement. Much of their ideology is simply too radical for ordinary men and women to accept, and as such trans activists have relied on the…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It is one of those singular ironies that Canada’s progressive politicians constantly warn about the emergence of imaginary Trump-like figures that they actually (and rather desperately) wish existed. The mere name of Donald Trump, of course, is now enough to elicit a fit of shivers from…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – When I read that the fried chicken giant Chick-fil-A was planning to open several restaurants in Toronto next year (and a dozen across Canada over the next several years), I texted my friend: “Prediction: some activist is going to make a stink about Chick-fil-A.” After all,…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few updates from the frontlines of the culture wars as you head into your weekend. *** In Pennsylvania, a Bible study ban crosses the boundaries of a personal property line. From the Family Research Council: If the government can ban Bible studies on private property, what’s next? That’s what a…
By Jonathon Van Maren It was only a matter of time, I suppose. Once people realized that the Canadian government had officially abolished—or at least, rendered legally irrelevant—the biological categories of male and female, someone was bound to realize that switching genders in certain circumstances could come with some potential benefits. Consider this story from…
By Jonathon Van Maren According to the CBC, Canada is rife with homophobic hate crimes. The evidence? Well, for starters, there was an anonymous guy who was recorded spitting on a rainbow crosswalk in St. John’s, because of course there was a rainbow crosswalk. Now, we don’t know who the guy is, or whether he…
By Jonathon Van Maren Those of you who read my columns regularly will know that I highlight the sexual savagery of porn culture on a nearly monthly basis. Pornography has transformed the way an entire generation thinks about sexuality and interacts with the opposite gender, and we are just beginning to find out how badly…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Chapter 7 of my book The Culture War, I detailed how human beings are increasingly becoming commodities, and specifically how children are becoming a product people feel they have a right to, rather than the little people we have serious obligations to—obligations that should include, if at all possible, a…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Indications that our culture is on its last legs, rationally speaking, are in abundance these days. Earlier this month, for example, we’ve been exposed to the delightful new term “theybies”—which, if you’re wondering, is what you call a baby when you decide to raise the child…
By Jonathon Van Maren Some of you reading this may remember a time when the word “ethics” was a meaningful term and “ethicists” were people who sought to discover and define right and wrong. In these modern times, however, our society lurches back and forth with breakneck speed from moral relativism to progressive totalitarianism—everything is…