By Jonathon Van Maren “Pornography is the theory,” renowned feminist Robin Morgan once wrote, “rape is the practice.” Indeed, feminists used to widely understand that pornography was, at its very best, dehumanizing and degrading, a product by men and for men that portrayed women only as objects of male desire. At its very worst, it…
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By Jonathon Van Maren I was very pleased to see that GQ Magazine has joined the growing number of secular publications that are beginning the painful process of examining our out-of-control cultural obsession with pornography, recently publishing an article entitled 10 Reasons You Should Quit Watching Porn. While a number of prominent feminists (including Naomi Wolf) have openly…
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By Jonathon Van Maren This column was first published in 2014 She looks young, younger than her 18 years. Sitting on a bed in a hotel room wearing baggy pajamas, glasses, and a far-away look, she looks at the camera and says bluntly, “A lot of s**t in my life has been ruined because of…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Christmastime has something that enlarges the heart of everyone–even, I suspect, the grinchiest of atheists. Whether it is lightly falling snow, or visiting family and friends, or Christmas caroling, or an audience surging to its feet at the crescendos of Handel’s Hallelujah chorus, there is something about this time of year…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Back in July, I wrote about the phenomenon of “Drag Queen Story Time” at public libraries across North America, where drag queens are brought in to read stories to groups of small children. In response, bloggers at the Huffington Post, Gay Star News, and BlogTO wrote columns calling me “intolerant,” which…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Alberta’s NDP government has had a rough couple of weeks. Their popularity continues to plummet right alongside the economic forecasts, and they’re currently fighting dozens of religious schools in court as they attempt to ramrod their radical social agenda into the communities and families of those who still hold to traditional…
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By Jonathon Van Maren December 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Each winter as the days get shorter and darkness falls earlier, I begin to look forward to my drive home from the office each day. Halfway home, I drive past a small white-frame church. It is an Anglican church built in 1854, now nearly surrounded by the…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Since the explosive rise of the transgender movement, feminists have discovered that intersectionality means that there is no such thing, technically speaking, as a “woman”—at least, not one that can be defined in any objective terms. Now, women can have penises, men can “chest-feed,” and a biological male can win female…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Becoming a global superstar comes with perks, as Dr. Jordan Peterson is discovering. He is traveling the world, speaking on the subjects nearest and dearest to him, and millions want to hear what he has to say. In the process, he’s become a best-selling author, and quite wealthy to boot—and he…
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By Jonathon Van Maren December 13, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Earlier this week, I wrote a column on the recent news out of Kansas that the rates of children sexually assaulting children have been sharply increasing for some time, and noted that in the United Kingdom police have also reported this trend (40,000 instances in only a couple…
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