Should Christians Approve of Homosexuals Adopting?
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.29.19
Recently, another purportedly Christian child welfare agency abandoned its commitments to Christ by agreeing to place children in the homes of people who affirm that which God detests. Faced with an ACLU lawsuit, Bethany Christian Services (BCS) in Michigan has...
The Criminalization of Christianity
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.24.19
On May 4, Australian rugby star Israel Folau, who was expected to play at the World Cup this fall, will come before a three-member panel of Rugby Australia following his firing by the organization for allegedly committing “a high-level breach...
When Worldviews Collide
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.22.19
During Holy week, a manifestly unholy thing was revealed about actress Charlize Theron. It was revealed that she’s pretending along with her 7-year-old son Jackson that he is a girl. Theron permits him to dress in distinctly female clothes, wear...
Opposition to “Trans” Ideology Grows
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.12.19
The God-rejecting, science-denying, incoherent “trans” ideology lurches on destroying lives, aided and abetted by ignorant people like Illinois’ Governor J.B. Pritzker who is using an administrative rule to force Illinoisans to pay for “gender reassignment” surgery and risky cross-sex hormone-doping...
La Perversion Llamada La Ley de Igualdad
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.14.19
Cualquier legislador que respalde la Ley de Igualdad, cuyo nombre es asquerosamente erróneo, cuya aprobación es la máxima prioridad legislativa de la Presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes Nancy Pelosi, es ignorante, cobarde, estúpido, malvado o todo lo previamente dicho....
Illinois Lawmakers Advance K-12  “LGBT” Indoctrination Bill
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.06.19
“Progressives,” also known as cultural regressives, have long had their sights on the hearts, minds, and bodies of other people’s children. Now that they control Big Government schools, regressives can control the ideas to which children are exposed. And boy, oh, boy are regressive Illinois lawmakers going for broke—morally speaking. They’ve already achieved fiscal bankruptcy.
Formerly “Trans” Young Women Speak Out
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.04.19
On February 26, the website Public Discourse published an article that includes the harrowing accounts of five mothers—one of whom is a lifelong Democrat, another a lesbian—whose daughters experienced Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). These mothers are certain that the culture, including the professional mental health community, physicians, schools, peer socialization, and social media, are providing a distorted lens through which girls are viewing and misinterpreting discomfort and confusion that results from factors like trauma and pre-existing medical conditions, leading them to believe suddenly that they are, in reality, boys. One of the mothers writes:...
Shocking Information About Illinois Medicaid and Pregnant Women
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.03.19
Maybe everyone knew this but me. If not, you better be sitting down for this one. Though not required by law, Illinois provides a program of benefits called Medicaid Presumptive Eligibility(MPE). MPE “offers immediate, temporary coverage for outpatient healthcare for...
Liberals to Make Illinois a Slaughterhouse Extraordinaire
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.25.19
To fulfill Governor J.B. Pritzker’s dream to make Illinois a slaughterhouse extraordinaire and the abortion mecca of the Midwest, that ever-reliable instigator of moral mayhem, State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago), has sponsored a bill that would put a twinkle in...
Tampons in Boys’ Bathrooms in Illinois Public Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.19.19
A sure sign that leftist lawmakers in Springfield are obsessively driven by the desire to use government money and power to advance an absurd, science-denying ideology is House Bill 922  sponsored by State Representative Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora) that, if...
U.S. Senator Cory Booker’s Religious Test for Judicial Nominee
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.05.19
The intellectually incoherent U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) sought to apply an unconstitutional religious test for office today when interrogating nominee to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Neomi Rao. Perhaps hoping everyone listening were idiots, he first attempted an indirect tactic by asking her this irrelevant question, the answer to which is none of his business: “Are gay relationships in your opinion immoral?”
Big Brother in League with the “Trans” Cult
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.29.19
To be filed in the bulging “ARE YOU KIDDING?!” news folder is a story from the increasingly oppressive United Kingdom. British police recently investigated dock worker and father of four Harry Miller for an alleged “hate incident” for reposting a...
29 Estados Permiten Aborto de Bebés a Término
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.28.19
La semana pasada me pregunté por qué hay tantos estadounidenses tan incredulos y ofendidos que el gobernador Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) promulgo un proyecto de ley aprobado júbilosamente por la legislatura estatal el cual que hace posible que las mujeres aborten a los bebés a término. Ciertamente, el proyecto de ley es moralmente repugnante y el aplauso jubiloso de la legislatura fue grotesco, pero otros 23 estados, incluyendo Illinois, permiten que los bebés a término sean extinguidos y por las mismas razones. Y 7 otros estados permiten que los bebés nacidos a término sean extinguidos por alguna o ninguna razón.
Colorado Teacher Bullies Covington Student
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.25.19
Michelle Grissom, a social studies teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Douglas County, Colorado, has been put on leave following her horrendous tweets about a Covington Catholic High School student. In her vindictive and indefensible quest to harm a...
Illinois Governor Pritzker All In for Taxpayer-Funding of Abortion and Planned Parenthood
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.24.19
Illinois’ newly installed governor, billionaire J.B. Pritzker, looked at the mess that decades of “progressive” rule has made of Illinois and had an epiphany: OMG, the problem here in Illinois is that it’s not progressive enough! That set him on...
Laurie Higgins
Cultural Affairs Writer
Laurie Higgins

Laurie Higgins was the Illinois Family Institute’s Cultural Affairs Writer in the fall of 2008 through early 2023. Prior to working for the IFI, Laurie worked full-time for eight years in Deerfield High School’s writing center in Deerfield, Illinois.

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