By Jonathon Van Maren An update from the frontlines of the culture wars: *** Some states are moving to respond to the Trump Administration by passing policies of their own. From the Colorado Sun: The federal government in recent months has banned transgender people from joining the military and made plans to roll back protections…
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By Jonathon Van Maren These days, the mainstream media spends an abnormal amount of time attempting to gin up controversy where none exists. Much of that controversy is designed to make those who still hold to traditional Christian values look like hopeless bigots and to warn those who disagree with elements of the LGBT agenda…
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By Jonathon Van Maren To most people, the transgender movement is simply about men and women who feel they have been born into the wrong bodies wanting to be recognized by society as the gender they feel rather than the gender they are. While this is certainly a part of the trans agenda, activists have…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Canada’s abortion activists are getting nervous. After thousands of Canadians rallied in capitals across the country against abortion earlier this month, joined by like-minded politicians such as MPP Sam Oosterhoff and others, the news that Alabama and a host of other states were passing tight abortion restrictions has set the defenders…
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By Jonathon Van Maren While the transgender ideology may have swept the upper echelons of society within a mere half-decade, most ordinary men and women are still not buying into its premises. As I noted in this space last year, the transgender ideology is being imposed from the top-down, and the backlash to elitist demands that we…
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Alabama’s recent abortion ban has been a catalyst in an already catalytic year in the American abortion wars. Jonathon Van Maren breaks down what is happening, and takes a look at what this means for 2020.
By Jonathon Van Maren Christopher Hitchens would probably be pleased to know that nearly a decade after his death, people have not stopped talking about him. Beyond the endless speculation as to what the Hitch might have had to say about President Donald Trump (back in 2000 he wrote that Trump had “worked out how…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Let’s run a little thought experiment. Suppose I told you about a social and political issue so explosive that it brings the largest number of people each year to Parliament Hill to protest, with more than 10,000 gathering in Ottawa this year to express their discontent with the government while thousands more rallied…
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Our euthanasia regimes continue to grow, and there are no signs that they will stop or even slow down. From the Christian Post: The phenomenon of elderly couples committing suicide together in nations where euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is legally permitted appears to be on the rise. In 2018, nine elderly couples in the Netherlands…
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