By Jonathon Van Maren If anyone wants to witness a small sampling of what “tolerance” looks like for trans activists, survey the reaction of their movement to an essay published by The Atlantic in their July/August issue titled “When Children Say They’re Trans.” Keep in mind, as you scroll through the waves of vitriol currently…
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By Jonathon Van Maren June 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – On Friday, June 15, the Supreme Court of Canada threw out a quarter-century of legal precedent on religious liberty by deciding, by a margin of 7-2, that it was “proportionate and reasonable” for the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario to refuse accreditation to any…
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By Jonathon Van Maren To close the week off, here’s a roundup of the latest insanities stampeding through the culture. Maine is the latest jurisdiction to offer a “third gender option” on their driver’s licenses—in addition to male and female, there will also be an “X” for those who are “non-binary.” These sorts of bureaucratic…
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By Jonathon Van Maren June 13, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — It may rank as one of the most unintentionally sad headlines I’ve ever read, and it showed up in The Telegraph last week: “Baby born to transgender man could become the first person without a legal mother.” A transgender man — a biological woman — is in court insisting that…
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Sohrab Ahmari joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss his latest analysis in Commentary, which featured a teen girl who is fighting to keep boys out of her school’s bathroom. www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-id…om-privacy/
By Jonathon Van Maren It seems that wherever you look these days, David Frum is cropping up to talk about his latest book, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. He’s chatted with Sam Harris on the Waking Up podcast, he’s sat down with Dave Rubin, and he even showed up in his home country…
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By Jonathon Van Maren News hasn’t gotten any better from the Republic of Ireland since the abortion referendum on May 25—turncoat taoiseach Leo Varadkar has already indicated that while individual medical professionals may be permitted conscientious objection to abortion, institutions will not. In other words, he and his government plan to force Catholic hospitals to provide…
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By Jonathon Van Maren June 12, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In April of 2018, archaeologists in Peru announced a horrifying discovery: Evidence of what appears to be the largest single mass child sacrifice in the world. Researchers uncovered the skeletons of 140 children between the age of five and fourteen years old, many with dislocated and…
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By Jonathon Van Maren A few years back, my friend JJ McCullough published a rather unpopular column, noting that although Pride parades have become a litmus test for one’s level of tolerance these days, there are plenty of people—himself included—who simply find them distasteful displays of indecency. The media and progressive politicians like to gang…
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By Jonathon Van Maren For today’s best news story in the category of “Everything is Stupid Now,” Business Insider just published an article with this doozy of headline: “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey forced to apologize for eating Chick-fil-A during Pride Month.” They described Dorsey’s sins against the Rainbow Empire as follows: On Saturday, Dorsey posted…
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