Articles by Laurie Higgins
Black Lives Matter, the Chicago Urban League, and Suffering Children
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.18.16
Recently, ABC 7 Eyewitness News anchor Terrell Brown interviewed Shari Runner, the president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League on the problems of black-on-black violence and the Black Lives Matter movement. Her predictable responses sound like she just returned...
Loony Leftist Leader of Dallas Protest
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.11.16
What the tragic events of last week did not need was the distraction posed by one of the organizers of the Dallas protest, Dr. Jeff Hood, the 32-year-old bearded, bespectacled white man who is effective at one thing: self-promotion. While Selma had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an eloquent, dignified, and committed follower of Christ, Dallas had Dr. Hood, a narcissist committed to self-aggrandizement, sexual deviance, and syncretism.
Iowa Civil Rights Commission Goes After Churches
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.08.16
The kind of draconian restrictions of speech and religious rights that corrupt Canadian governance are  arriving bit by corroded bit on America’s church steps sooner than many expected and in, of all places,  Iowa. Make no mistake though, this is...
Obama Dishonors National Park Service
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.06.16
Summer is the season during which countless parents take their children to visit our magnificent national parks. And this is a special year for our National Park Service in that August 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the day...
Chelsea Handler Defends Her Two Abortions
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.29.16
The foulmouthed comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler has written an essay—appropriately for Playboy Magazine—rationalizing the intentional killing of her two preborn babies when she was 16 years old. She was not pregnant with twins. She became pregnant twice...
Harvard Law Professor to Conservatives: You’re Losers, Live With It.
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.27.16
Conservative friends, if it weren’t clear to you already that the halcyon days for theologically orthodox people of faith in America are over, read the ominous, hostile, and arrogant words of Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell professor of law at...
Government to Censor Omar Mateen’s Pledge of Allegiance to ISIS
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.20.16
*UPDATE* This post has been updated to reflect the Department of Justice’s reversal of  position on redacting the transcript of Orlando club shooter Omar Mateen’s phone calls with law enforcement. Four hours after the release of a partial transcript of ...
Co-ed Restrooms, Showers & Bathhouses Coming to Chicago
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.20.16
On Wednesday May 18, Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced an amendment to a Chicago human rights ordinance that if passed would make it even easier for men to use women’s restrooms and other facilities in which private activities take place. On...
CUNY Math Professor Donates Sperm in Target Bathrooms
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.16.16
A recent New York Post story illuminates the tragic consequences of the sexual revolution that separated sex from procreation, sex from marriage, and marriage from children. Children are intentionally and cavalierly separated from their biological parents.
Orlando’s Night of Horror
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.13.16
Tragedy struck again in the United States at the hands of a young man whose mind was poisoned by pernicious ideas and perhaps darkened by mental illness, this time at a well-known homosexual night club in Orlando, Florida. There are...
Social Scientists Discover Conservatives Aren’t Psycho
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.13.16
Perhaps some remember the plethora of news stories a few years ago touting a 2012 research paper that purported to show that authoritarian personality types tend to be politically conservative. In a remarkable turn of events the researchers have admitted...
Alliance to Censor Speech on the Internet
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.09.16
A National Review article warns of a troubling new collaboration between the European Union (EU)and social media sites including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft to police and censor the Internet. In a document with Orwellian overtones titled “Code of ...
Congress Debates Mandatory Selective Service Registration for Women
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.08.16
Some may remember the ecstatic press accounts of the first two women, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, to make it through the grueling Army Ranger School. Well, here’s what former Marine Jude Eden shares in an article...
Obama Dishonors National Park Service
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.06.16
Summer is the season during which countless parents take their children to visit our magnificent national parks. And this is a special year for our National Park Service in that August 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the day...
Incoherent Leftists, Abortion, and SB 1564
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.04.16
Leftists in our leftist-controlled state are seeking to amend the “Health Care Right of Conscience” law so as to deny the right of conscience of medical professionals who oppose feticide, artificial contraception, and certain end-of-life protocols that intentionally and prematurely...
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.

Her cultural commentaries have been carried on a number of pro-family websites nationally and internationally, and Laurie has appeared on numerous radio programs across the country. In addition, Laurie has spoken at the Council for National Policy and educational conferences sponsored by the Constitutional Coalition.

She has been married to her husband for forty-four years, and they have four grown children and ten grandchildren.

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