By Jonathon Van Maren My first update from Ireland can be read here. For a history buff, just driving through the Irish countryside is a surreal experience. There are falling-down ruins everywhere—old stone outbuildings, solitary slumping castle walls, and ancient houses with oak trees rising victoriously from within, roofed with nothing but sky. We pulled…
By Jonathon Van Maren We touched down in the Dublin Airport early Saturday morning—my wife, daughter Charlotte, and colleagues Nick and Maaike Rosendal, ready for two weeks of pro-life activism with the Save the Eighth Campaign. Abortion activists have been attempting to roll back Ireland’s Eighth Amendment, which includes specific protections for pre-born babies in…
By Jonathon Van Maren Way back in the day, a few short years ago, being “trans” meant that you felt you were born into the wrong body and wanted to be recognized as the opposite gender. Two pronouns were all that were needed, and the now apparently totalitarian reign of heteronormative binarism was just fine.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Like most social conservatives, I was very disappointed to see that PC leader Doug Ford decided to drop Tanya Granic Allen as a candidate over the weekend, citing the “tone” of some of her past comments. After Granic Allen’s stellar performance during the leadership race and her personal sacrifice in staying…
By Jonathon Van Maren Scanning the news today, I see that my friend Andrew Lawton, a popular former radio host on London’s AM980, is under attack. As many of you will know, he was appointed the Progressive Conservative candidate for London West by PC leader Doug Ford just over a week ago, and since then…
By Jonathon Van Maren On July 21, 2017, Elle Magazine published a glowing profile of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the progressive champion of abortion rights. He was going to war against pro-life protestors outside abortion clinics, the writer gushed—and he had been fighting for the abortion industry his whole life. “He’s been…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Chapter 8 of my 2016 book The Culture War, I detailed how the gay rights movement carefully strategized ways of pushing organizations, churches, and people who disagreed with their agenda to the “fringe” in public perception. In part, this involved persuading the public that same-sex marriage was a human right,…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 7, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In a barn-burner speech to thousands of Albertans who gathered in Red Deer over the weekend to vote on the policy platform for the new United Conservative Party, Jason Kenney declared war on Rachel Notley and her NDP government. He denounced the carbon tax, promised the return of…
By Jonathon Van Maren On May 23, 2014, a twenty-two year old man named Elliot Rodger left his California home and murdered six people, stabbing three and shooting three others. He wounded an additional fourteen people. He then uploaded a video to YouTube describing the reasons behind his “Day of Retribution,” emailed a document titled…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is a singular irony that both federal and provincial left-wing parties like to claim that Canada’s assortment of conservative parties have a nefarious hidden agenda: They want to re-open the abortion debate. In fact, Conservative politicians, for the most part, want nothing of the kind—abortion is an issue that most…