By Jonathon Van Maren After Australia’s stunning election last weekend, Bloomberg was blunt. “The New Right Is Beating the New Left,” read the headline. “Everywhere.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison, an evangelical Christian, was expected to get destroyed in a landslide that would sweep his Liberal-National Coalition from power. Every pollster predicted it, and every left-wing…
By Jonathon Van Maren Over the past several weeks in the Netherlands, I have been giving a number of lectures on abortion, pornography, and other aspects of the culture wars. At one event, I was detailing how pornography has largely transformed sexuality among young people, especially in regard to the sexually violent behavior that has…
By Jonathon Van Maren Ideology is trumping biological identification once again–this time in Australia. From the Daily Mail: Landmark gender rights laws have made it through Tasmania’s lower house which include parents having to ‘opt in’ to have a baby’s sex recorded on birth certificates. The House of Assembly passed the legislation, which was proposed…
By Jonathon Van Maren In one fell swoop, the state parliament of the Australian province of Queensland has both legalized abortion up until the point of viability as well as destroyed conscience rights for dissenting medical professionals. From The Guardian: Abortion will become legal in Queensland, after the state’s parliament voted to support new legislation and…
By Jonathon Van Maren Kathleen Clubb is the mother of thirteen children, one of Australia’s most prominent pro-life activists—and she homeschools, to boot. Last year, The Australian recently reported, Clubb became “the first person to be convicted under abortion protest laws in Victoria, which will play in what may become one of the most important…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’m often asked how I manage to stay in good spirits when one of my primary jobs working fulltime as a pro-life activist is to research and write about the crumbling culture all around us, and that’s a pretty good question. Frustration, disbelief, and even anger are pretty regular sentiments when…
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 Australia is the latest nation to discover that the activists who spent years pushing for gay marriage while insisting that it would have no impact on anyone were lying. Australian LGBT activists, just like those in other Western nations, had absolutely no intention of winning the right to marry and then…