By Jonathon Van Maren It has to be said: If Donald Trump had not been elected president of the United States, Neil Gorsuch would not be on the Supreme Court. And if Merrick Garland had been confirmed as a Supreme Court justice instead of Gorsuch, the pro-life movement would have suffered a devastating loss today,…
By Jonathon Van Maren June 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – On Friday night, Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was apparently kicked out of a Virginia restaurant because she works for Donald Trump. “Last night,” she tweeted on Saturday, “I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work…
By Jonathon Van Maren It looks like religious liberty may have just secured another important victory in the wake of Jack Phillips’ success at the US Supreme Court earlier this month. In a decision that Ryan T. Anderson called “great news,” the Court decided to vacate a Washington state ruling against florist Barronelle Stutzman, who…
By Jonathon Van Maren In a nation where abortion is legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy, where two of the major political parties have demanded that none of their politicians vote pro-life and the third has promised loudly not to touch the abortion debate, where the prime minister is spending millions of dollars to…
By Jonathon Van Maren Nearly a half-century after Roe v. Wade, abortion is still a subject that bitterly divides America. More than sixty million pre-born children have been extinguished, and their demise is still the rawest of subjects for millions of the people who have survived them. Who would these nameless millions have been? What…
By Jonathon Van Maren Recently, I finished a fascinating book by Edmonton scholar Dr. Michael Wagner, Standing on Guard For Thee: The Past, Present, and Future of Canada’s Christian Right. I hadn’t been aware that a comprehensive history covering Canada’s journey from a largely Christian nation to a secular country governed by the tenets of…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Liberal decision to insert an ideological purity test into the Canada Summer Jobs Program continues to dog them, as this exchange in the House of Commons a week ago highlights beautifully: Hon. Candice Bergen (Portage—Lisgar, CPC): Mr. Speaker, last Saturday, in downtown Toronto in what can only be described as…
By Jonathon Van Maren June 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In the wake of last week Friday’s devastating Supreme Court ruling on Trinity Western University’s proposed law school, in which all seven judges ruling against TWU admitted that they were about to violate TWU’s religious freedom but that this violation was of “minor significance” in the eyes of…
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…
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…