By Jonathon Van Maren As the culture wars heat up between the American Left and Right, progressive journalists are increasingly falling back on a powerful and succinct statement to push the public into a nostalgia for the Obama years: This isn’t normal. None of this, they write and tweet and blog endlessly, is “normal”: Not the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this week, I took a brief look at how the mainstream media is teaming up with celebrities to normalize transgenderism and to make it appear as if things that we would all be stunned by a mere decade ago are not only acceptable, but downright laudable. One of those things,…
By Jonathon Van Maren Since Trump’s election, the Left has embarked on a new mantra: “This isn’t normal.” If we get used to all of this–the ignorant and petulant tweets, the erratic behavior, the knee-jerk responses to criticism—then, they warn us, we are going to eventually get warmed up some form of fascism like the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Most of you will have already seen the controversy swirling around Extra host Mario Lopez, who found himself the target of the LGBTQ lynch mob this week after making a handful of utterly reasonable comments on the Candance Owens Show, a conservative podcast, back in June. In a discussion about actress Charlize Theron’s decision…
For many secular people who haven’t been paying particular attention to the transgender phenomenon, the concerns expressed by those of us who oppose the ideology of gender fluidity often seem somewhat bewildering, or perhaps simply appear to be knee-jerk opposition to something “new.” I’ve provided many examples of why transgenderism is dangerous on this blog…
By Jonathon Van Maren Here’s some pleasant news to start off our culture wars update, from FOX News: The Trump administration stopped taxpayer dollars from going to abortion referrals at publicly funded family planning centers on Monday. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, sued the administration, along with 20 states and the District of Columbia, in an…
The Daily Mail is pulling no punches in a report earlier this month that lays out the growing fears of many experts and academics that the transgender phenomenon, which is exploding across the UK, will have real consequences for many people that we do not yet fully understand. Please read the whole report—it highlights with…
By Jonathon Van Maren Your latest cultural update is here—the good, the bad, and the ugly. *** I wonder what it will take for people to get fed up with the relentless sexualization of children. Drag Queen Storytime is bad enough, but this report from LifeSiteNews—that shows children laying on top of drag queens—is absolutely…
By Jonathon Van Maren When I spotted the headline in the Charlotte Observer earlier this week, I had to do a double-take: “The man in the maternity ward,” it read. The tenderly written story, framed as a beautiful human interest piece, begins like this: Liam Johns steps inside the ultrasound clinic and looks around. He’s relieved the waiting room…
