By Jonathon Van Maren After publishing a lengthy essay in The Atlantic questioning several of the brand-new orthodoxies of transgenderism, the pro-LGBT journalist Jesse Singal found himself the target of a vitriolic smear campaign that saw him damned as a dangerous bigot by furious trans activists. If I was a betting man, I’d say Janice…
By Jonathon Van Maren My friend and fellow blogger Patricia Maloney, who has been covering the story of live-birth abortions for several years now, published some of her latest findings last week: According to new data, livebirth late-term abortions are still happening in Canada. And the numbers are way too high. According to CIHI, There…
By Jonathon Van Maren WARNING: Article contains graphic descriptions. August 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Some days, it seems as if the transgender movement is actually trying to sound as unreasonable as humanly possible to ordinary people—that is, the sort of people who live their lives without once being offended at transphobic statements such as “only women can get pregnant.” There’s…
By Jonathon Van Maren Wonderful news this week out of Australia: The Senate has rejected the legalization of assisted suicide by the razor-thin margin of only two votes. From the Sydney Morning Herald: A private member’s bill that would have cleared the way for assisted suicide to be legalised across Australia has been defeated. The…
By Jonathon Van Maren August 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) –Last week, the senate of Argentina rejected the legalization of abortion by a mere handful of votes, sending shockwaves through the abortion movement and triggering wild celebrations from Argentinian pro-lifers who took to the streets by the thousands, waving the blue kerchiefs that had become the symbol of their movement. The…
By Jonathon Van Maren After a nine-hour drive north from Calgary through an Albertan landscape dotted with reed-filled ponds and muskeg and miles of bright yellow canola fields, my cousin and I turned down a jaw-rattling gravel road featuring a large, tan sign framed with stripped and varnished tree branches that let us know that…
By Jonathon Van Maren August 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It has been several months since Ireland voted to repeal the 8th Amendment, and many pro-lifers are still struggling to understand how, exactly, the result came about. How did so many people who oppose abortion on demand vote to repeal protections for pre-born children? Why did so…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few updates from the frontlines of the culture wars around the world: **** Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary continues to attract the ire of progressives. Earlier this year, his government passed a “Stop Soros” package to blunt the influence of Soros cash, and now they are insisting that state-funded…
Dr. Michael Wagner joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss his book Standing on Guard for Thee: The Past, Present, and Future of Canada’s Christian Right, covering Canada’s transformation from a Christian nation to the one that it is today.
By Jonathon Van Maren LGBT activists are not giving up their vindictive campaign to punish Colorado baker Jack Phillips for declining to create a gay wedding cake—not even after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in in his favour back in June. Scarcely six weeks after his legal victory, Phillips is already back…