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…
By Jonathon Van Maren Those of us who see transgenderism as a dangerous ideology often face questions from those who see it as simply another manifestation of our culture’s embrace of personal bodily autonomy, even if they do find it somewhat strange. It is true, they say, that some men feel like they are women…
If you needed more evidence that we live in one of the dumbest eras, peruse this news item from the Daily Mail: In a scientific first, researchers claim to have found that differences between men’s and women’s brains start in the womb. The conclusion is likely to be controversial, with some experts claiming social influences are…
By Jonathon Van Maren Some of you may remember the bizarre story of the British docker from Humberside who got contacted by the police after tweeting out a limerick about transgender people. The police had a list of thirty tweets sent out by Miller, and informed him that they were investigating to determine if a…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last week Friday, Ontario Minister of Education Lisa Thompson announced some of the much-anticipated changes to the provincial curriculum, and as expected, there is good news and bad news. Minister Thompson specifically addressed many of the concerns voiced by parents about the existing Wynne curriculum, as well as noting changes to…
I rarely excerpt an entire article on this blog, but in the case of this piece from the Christian Post, I’m going to make an exception. The helpless family members of girls and boys who have decided to transition are rarely heard from, despite the fact many of them are left heartbroken by the often…
