Michael Coren
Written on 13 Sep, 2010 at 18:31 in
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Michael Coren
I’m about to make my annual visit to Britain, the land of my birth and where I spent the first 27 years of my life. Also, the country of John Wesley, who was born a little over 300 years ago. Wesley was, of course, the founder of Methodism, an evangelical grouping that began within the Church of England but eventually found life more comfortable as a separate denomination. Today, sadly, it is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Aug, 2010 at 6:21 in
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Michael Coren Today people have a tendency to hold their ha
nds up and make pretend quotations marks when they use the phrase “family values” as though they’re embarrassed about it and want to qualify or justify what they’re saying. There’s no need. Family values are obvious – as natural as family itself. We can argue the politics, but for once let’s explain it in the personal. A true story about my daughter.
She falls down ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jul, 2010 at 5:18 in
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Michael Coren
We’ve all heard it. “You anti-abortion people are obsessed with one issue.” Actually we’re pro-life and it’s you who try to make us monomaniacal by calling us anti-abortion. Mind you, to be opposed to the mass slaughter of the most vulnerable people in society is hardly anything of which to be ashamed and it’s surely activists who obsess about taxes or animals or free trade who are the strange ones, not we ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jun, 2010 at 7:06 in
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Michael Coren
Sometimes I wonder why the people of Africa do not positively detest Europe and North America. We have exploited, colonized and raped their continent for centuries and continue to sell arms to their dictators whom we have put in place and then condemn them for spending money on wars. We invaded their countries, destroyed their culture and enforced white privilege and now moan that they are corrupt and inefficient.
We enslaved them, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 May, 2010 at 11:35 in
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The sun is shining, or it’s raining or snowing, so it must be time for yet another attack on the Roman Catholic church. This time involving lies about the Pope, his brother and, before long, his auntie Freda and his pet cat Hans. Logical thinking and balanced thought were eliminated from this subject long ago. It’s church-bashing time and why bother about poverty and war when you can pretend that Catholicism is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 6:05 in
Columnist, Michael Coren, Movie Review | Author:
Michael Coren
In early March, the usual Hollywood types gathered at the usual Hollywood Oscar event and gave the usual people the usual awards. Avatar didn’t win much, but it hardly matters – it’s the most financially successful movie in the history of cinema. It’s also anti-Christian, anti-human and bursting with pagan and anti-life concepts and constructs.
Set in 2154, it concerns a paraplegic marine (presumably Obama’s healthcare bill was not a success) given the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Mar, 2010 at 9:41 in
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Michael Coren
Recently, in my Sun Media column, I wrote of being invited by a student group at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. to speak on the issue of abortion. I wrote in the column that the organizers of the event were obliged to hire security guards after threats were made to disrupt the event and how these were taken seriously as pro-life speakers have been shouted down, meetings broken up and people assaulted ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Feb, 2010 at 14:33 in
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Michael Coren
It’s become as achingly regular and just as irritating as a publicly funded documentary claiming to disprove Christianity. Celebrities and activists, that is, moaning on about animal rights and telling us that our humanity is defined by how much we care for kittens. The reason this is so bitingly relevant to the pro-life movement is because of the deep, dark links between the animal liberation movement and supporters of eugenics and population ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2010 at 19:11 in
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Michael Coren
It’s always astounded me that people who accuse pro-lifers of being obsessed with abortion are actually some of the first people to mention the subject whenever they think they can win an argument, even when it’s not directly relevant. One example is whenever an act of Islamic extremist terror occurs. “All religions produce murderers and fanatics,” runs the moan. “Look at the all of those Christians who shoot ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Dec, 2009 at 8:13 in
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Michael Coren I accuse. The various federal and provincial human rights commissions of discrimination. Against me. Because, for years now, I have spoken out against same-sex “marriage,” the excesses of the gay community and Muslim extremism in my column as well as on my television show, watched by 250,000 people. Good Lord, I’ve even made speeches on these issues, addressing thousands of people.
I know that some people have complained to certain commissions, but I also know that the commissions in question have ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Nov, 2009 at 6:00 in
Columnist, Michael Coren, Religion | Author:
Michael Coren
In early October, a former Roman Catholic bishop, Raymond Lahey, was charged with the possession and distribution of child pornography. Whether he is guilty or not is yet to be decided, but the case does look extremely bad.
Beyond what he is accused of having had on his laptop computer recently, it is also alleged that he was seen in the 1980s looking at pictures of aroused teenage ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Oct, 2009 at 10:43 in
Columnist, Michael Coren, Society & Culture | Author:
Michael Coren
Titus Brandsma was a small, gentle, bespectacled man. He spent years working with the Dutch underground movement to smuggle Jewish people out of the Netherlands and away from the threat of the Nazi murderers. As a monk, he rejected violence and so would not, could not, pick up a gun to use against the oppressors of goodness and all he held dear. But night after night, week ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 5:32 in
Columnist, Marriage and Family, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
Once again the assembled chiefs of police in Canada have called for an increased number of officers to deal with what they describe as a “spiralling increase” in the amount of child pornography on the internet. They explained to a press conference that a quarter of a million separate internet addresses in Canada are actively downloading the most horrendous scenes of child sexual abuse, giving talk radio ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2009 at 11:35 in
Columnist, Human rights, Marriage and Family, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
It’s an annual event now, like some sort of grotesque birthday – the attempt to make the spanking of one’s child a criminal offence. The zealots have failed so far, but be warned that each time, they come a little closer. For most of us, the normal ones, the issue is largely irrelevant. Spanking is sometimes helpful, and frequently a waste of time, but is hardly ever ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Jul, 2009 at 13:15 in
Columnist, Marriage and Family, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
The last time I saw my dad alive was as he walked, arm in arm, with my mum through the departure gates of Toronto airport. It was symbolic. He turned around to wave goodbye. In a few weeks, he would be dead. I found out after his death that he had been suffering from agonizing bone cancer that had taken hold of his spine. This, combined with ... (Continue reading)
