By Jonathon Van Maren C.C. Pecknold makes an essential point in the Catholic Herald this month, noting that progressives are now no longer even pretending that they want to live together in society where compromise allows us to live and let live. Rather, they want to force us all to be accomplices to their ever-expanding…
By Jonaton Van Maren The transgender train is now rattling along at such breakneck speeds that even many liberal commentators cannot keep pace with the rate of progress. Exhibit A is an exchange between HBO’s Bill Maher, host of Real Time with Bill Maher, and bestselling author and radio host Dennis Prager. During a spirited debate…
By Jonathon Van Maren Since my column last week warning that Christian communities have virtually no defence against LGBTQ activists who fully intend to come after our schools (like they did in Alberta last year), our freedom of speech and assembly (like Trinity Western University, a small evangelical university that found itself the subject of a years-long judicial witch-hunt), and…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last week, I wrote a column on the public shaming of feminist Meghan Murphy. I noted that shouting crowd outside the Toronto Public Library made me nervous because of the sheer rage on the faces of those shouting for the head of a feminist woman who has been on board with every manifestation…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Sexual Revolution is rapidly pushing towards the total breakdown of boundaries, both social and biological. With the stunning rise of gender ideology and our culture’s near total collapse in the face of the trans movement’s advance, science has now become the slave of ideology, with the belief in bodily autonomy…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last year, I wrote about a story out of the United Kingdom, where a Reformed Baptist doctor was fired from his job as a medical assessor after declining to embrace the new ideology of gender fluidity—specifically, when his manager asked him if he would be willing to call a 6-foot-tall bearded…
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…