Articles by Laurie Higgins
Jenner, Dolezal, and Teenager Caden Boone
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.18.15
Through their foolishness, selfishness, and arrogance, “progressives” are responsible for the harm being done to children, teens, the family, the church, the First Amendment, and what’s left of American culture. Through our ignorance, selfishness, cowardice, and passivity (if not apathy),...
Trans-Gendered, Trans-Raced, Trans-Abled, Trans-Aged, Trans-Specied Solipsists
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.12.15
Once more for the hard of hearing or weak of understanding: The athlete formerly known as Bruce is not now nor ever can be a woman. Further, it is the apex of cruelty and ignorance to pretend along with him...
Hurling Boulders at the Duggars
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.09.15
The Duggar controversy illuminates the truth that the cultural battle in which Christians are engaged is first and foremost a battle with principalities and powers:  “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the...
Do Librarians Really Care About Book-Banning?
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.04.14
Self-righteous, dissembling librarians are seeking once again to foment “book-banning” hysteria through their annual dishonest Banned Books Week campaign (Sept. 21-27) sponsored by the self-righteous, dissembling, and politically partisan American Library Association (ALA). The ALA pursues its hysteria-fomenting goal chiefly...
Reject Homosexuality-Affirming “Education”
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.30.13
As 2013 comes to a close, I want to make a few observations on the pervasive assault on sexuality truths—observations which are relevant to those with and without children. “Progressives” wax jubilant over the sexual revolution that continues unabated and...
Ignorance Wins in Middle School Book Controversy
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.13.13
On June 10, the Hadley Middle School Board of Education in Glen Ellyn reversed its prior decision to exclude the obscene and sexually graphic The Perks of Being a Wallflower from its independent reading program. This second vote was 6-1...
The Friendly Atheist Mocks IFI’s Back-to-School Suggestions
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.08.12
I was just sent a link to the blog of Neuqua Valley High School math teacher and not-so-friendly atheist Hemant Mehta who seems to spend a fair amount of time monitoring my writing. He is particularly exercised by my suggestion...
The Truth About Harvey Milk
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.17.12
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that President Barack Obama invited the obscene, Christian-hating, homosexual, manboy Dan Savage to the White House. After all, President Obama’s  “Safe School Czar” was the homosexual founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN),...
Cardinal Francis George Comments on Homosexual Pride Parade
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.29.11
Organizers of Chicago’s annual celebration of sexual deviancy, oxymoronically named the Chicago “Gay Pride” Parade, decided to change the parade route and time for the 2012 parade. This change would have resulted in the disruption or cancellation of the 10:00...
Higgins Responds to Tribune’s “Transgender” Stories — You Can Too
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.19.11
Today, Monday, December 19, 2011, the Chicago Tribune included not one, but three articles (click HERE,HERE, and HERE) on “transgenderism” by Rex Huppke, their designated proselyte for “progressive” views of homosexuality and Gender Identity Disorder (GID). (In the Diagnostic and...
More on HB 3027
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.24.11
The problematic and completely unnecessary Comprehensive Sex Ed bill, HB 3027 (Amendments 1 and 3), may be voted on in the Illinois State House this week. This bill is unnecessary because any school district that wants to use a comprehensive...
Chicago Tribune Op Ed on Banned Books Week
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.05.11
On Tuesday, John Keilman wrote a lighthearted editorial on last week’s annual dishonest campaign by the American Library Association (ALA) laughably named “Banned Books Week.” His personal story was revelatory. Keilman shared that when he was young, pulp novels with...
The Southern Poverty Law Center Infiltrates Public Education
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.31.11
Decades ago, summer was the time that necessitated increased parental vigilance. School was the safe place. But the times they have a’changed. Self-righteous “agents of change” stand ready at the schoolhouse door to mold other people’s children into ideological replicas...
Florida Teacher Investigated for Criticizing Homosexuality
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.22.11
There’s troubling news coming out of Florida that provides evidence that the cultural movement to normalize homosexuality poses a serious threat to First Amendment speech and religious rights. Mount Dora High School social studies teacher and winner of the 2010...
Illinois Anti-Bullying Law & Task Force (Part 1)
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.09.11
Illinois parents may soon begin to taste the diseased fruit of the Illinois “enumerated” anti-bullying act that Governor Quinn signed into law a year ago on the Sunday morning of the Chicago “gay pride” parade at a ceremony at Nettelhorst...
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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