Articles by Laurie Higgins
![Milo Yiannopoulos is Destructive to Conservatism Milo Yiannopoulos is Destructive to Conservatism](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/170220143923-milo-yiannopoulos-516x260.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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02.21.17
The obscene, sodomy-celebrating, and nasty provocateur; rising GOP star; and Breitbart contributor Milo Yiannopoulos was recently invited to be the keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Fortunately, his invitation was quickly rescinded when an interview with Joe Rogan from ten months ago came to light in which Yiannopoulos gleefully recounted performing a sex act on a Catholic priest when Yiannopoulos was 14-years-old--a sexual act that Yiannopoulos insisted did not constitute pedophilia.
![New Trier High School’s Fight Against Diversity Becomes National Story New Trier High School’s Fight Against Diversity Becomes National Story](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/NewTrierHSBoard-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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02.19.17
The controversy over a mandatory all-school, all-day Leftist seminar on “racial civil rights” at New Trier High School on Chicago’s North Shore continues to intensify. It has now become a national story with Peter Berkowitz, senior fellow with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, publishing an editorial in the Wall Street Journal in which he accurately describes the event...
![Hypocrisy of Leftists on Religious Tolerance Hypocrisy of Leftists on Religious Tolerance](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Hijabi4-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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02.16.17
On Monday, I wrote about World Hijab Day during which non-Muslim teachers in public schools adopted the religious practice of hijab, wearing the head covering that some Muslim women wear voluntarily and some are coerced into wearing. Hijab is a controversial practice even among Muslims, many of whom see it as a symbol of a form of political Islam called Islamism that oppresses women.
![Should Public School Teachers Participate in World Hijab Day Should Public School Teachers Participate in World Hijab Day](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hijab-day-516x260.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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02.13.17
February 1, 2013 marked the first annual World Hijab Day, which was started by Nazma Khan, who emigrated from Bangladesh to the U.S. when she was 11-years-old.... On World Hijab Day, non-Muslim women and non-hijabi Muslims (i.e., Muslim women who don’t wear hijabs) are urged to wear a hijab for a day “in recognition of millions of Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab and live a life of modesty.”
![Controversy Grows Over Imbalanced Seminar on Race Controversy Grows Over Imbalanced Seminar on Race](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Linda-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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02.06.17
Surprise, surprise, liberal administrators and community members oppose and censor conservative viewpoints at a public school.
A controversy has been percolating in the affluent communities served by New Trier High School on Chicago’s North Shore. It’s a controversy that has implications for public schools all over the country—and not just high schools—so I hope taxpayers in other communities pay attention.
![Corrupt, Nonsensical Legislation Reintroduced Corrupt, Nonsensical Legislation Reintroduced](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Presentation2-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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02.03.17
Equality Illinois, Illinois’ most prominent cheerleader for all things sexually deviant—especially doctrinaire and destructive legislation—is cheering the reintroduction of a bill that would make it even easier for gender-dysphoric persons to have their birth certificates legally falsified.
![The Radical “Trans”-Formation of America The Radical “Trans”-Formation of America](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/trans-activists-516x260.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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02.01.17
For decades the Left has embarked on a science- and morality-defying quest to advance a sexuality ideology that undermines human flourishing. There is no better illustration of that than the radical “trans”-formation of America with regard to “transgenderism.”
![Let Madonna, Judd, and Cyrus Fund Planned Parenthood Let Madonna, Judd, and Cyrus Fund Planned Parenthood](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Miley-2-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.26.17
Let's see, Planned Parenthood provides age-inappropriate, Leftist dogma packaged as sex "education" to children and kills incipient human life in the womb. Moreover, no Planned Parenthood performs mammograms, and very, very few offer prenatal care. And yet Planned Parenthood is an essential provider of women's healthcare?
![Will This Be the Final Nail in Planned Parenthood’s Coffin? Will This Be the Final Nail in Planned Parenthood’s Coffin?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Richards-1-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.25.17
The pro-life organization Live Action has just released a bombshell video that darn well better be the nail in the coffin of Planned Parenthood—a coffin brimming with baby corpses... Of the 97 Planned Parenthood facilities Live Action contacted, only 5 provided prenatal care. Live Action’s short video provides persuasive evidence that Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards is a liar.
![Women’s March for Death and Deviance Women’s March for Death and Deviance](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ProChoice-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.23.17
A blaring, front-page headline in the Chicago Tribune about the women's march for death and deviant sexuality marred the Sunday morning of many Illinoisans—once again justifying the subterranean position the mainstream press occupies in the view of many Americans.
The Trib reports that an estimated 500,000 mostly women “staged an enormous, raucous rally…to send a potent message of defiance to…President Trump.”
![The Audacity of Obama The Audacity of Obama](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FarwellObama-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.20.17
Last week President Barack Obama delivered his farewell address. Aside from his lovely tribute to his family, there were more than a few portions of his address that raised eyebrows, hackles, and dander.
![New Trier High School Avoids Diversity Like the Plague New Trier High School Avoids Diversity Like the Plague](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NTHS1-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.10.17
Conservatives claim that government schools are in the tank for “progressivism” and that “progressive educators” lie when they claim to value diversity. There is no better evidence for those claims than the upcoming “All-School Seminar Day 2017” Feb. 28 at New Trier High School (both campuses), which serves the affluent communities of Northfield and Winnetka, Illinois.
![Highlights Magazine for Children Affirms Homoeroticism Highlights Magazine for Children Affirms Homoeroticism](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Kristina-Wertz1-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.04.17
It’s the New Year and time to purge our lives of things that impede spiritual growth, like unedifying television shows and reading material. No, I’m not talking about porn of either the hard or softcore variety—though our lives must be purged of that.
I’m talking about Highlights magazine for children ages 6-10, Highlights’ High Five magazine for ages 2-6, and Highlights’ Hello magazine for ages 0-2.
![Cub Scouts Reject Girl Who Wishes She Were a Boy Cub Scouts Reject Girl Who Wishes She Were a Boy](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Joe-Scout2-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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12.29.16
“Progressives” and even some so-called “moderate” Republicans are attempting to diminish the import of allowing biological males and females to access restrooms, locker rooms, and even private clubs reserved for the opposite sex. Those who promote practices and policies that mandate sexual integration of heretofore single-sex facilities focus like a laser beam on two issues, hoping to blind the fearful masses to the larger issues and devastating cultural implications of the ultimate goal of sexual subversives: the eradication of all public recognition and accommodation of sexual differentiation.
![Pro-“LGBTQ” YouTube Series for Young Children Pro-“LGBTQ” YouTube Series for Young Children](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/qks-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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12.20.16
The 21st Century Leftist alchemical superstition that male humans can transmute into females or vice versa provides evidence that “progressives” are the real science-deniers and that contemporary man is not immune to the kind of indoctrination with irrational and destructive ideologies that has corrupted societies throughout history.