Articles by Laurie Higgins
Illinois Christian Businessman Fined $80k for His Faith — But There is More
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.29.16
Another Christian business-owner has been persecuted for his faith. Jim Walder, owner of an Illiois bed and breakfast, has been fined $80,000 by the Illinois “Human Rights” junta (also known as the Illinois Human Rights Commission) for refusing to rent...
Disturbing Video Shows Risk to Girls and Women Posed by Co-Ed Restrooms and Locker Rooms
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.13.16
There are multiple reasons to oppose policies and laws that permit people to use opposite-sex restrooms, dressing rooms, and locker rooms, including the risk posed to young girls and women. What’s sickeningly ironic is that “progressives” argue that since many...
Parents, Teachers, and Administrators: What to Do on Day of Silence
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.08.16
The annual, well-organized, and nearly ubiquitous pro-homosexual/pro-gender-confusion political event called the Day of Silence (DOS) invades our public schools on Friday, April 12, 2019. The Day of Silence is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) whose...
Gender Dysphoria Madness: 21st Century Superstition Run Amok
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.24.16
On Monday, the Chicago Tribune ran a guest essay written by Tucker Fitzgerald, the deceived father of a six-year-old gender-dysphoric boy who is being permitted to pretend he’s objectively female. This boy is permitted to wear dresses and use girl's restrooms. Fitzgerald wants his son to be able to continue this restroom practice, foolishly writing, “[W]hen confronted with trusting her [sic] heart and mind, or trusting her [sic] genitals, I chose her [sic] heart and mind.” What “heart and mind” refers to are feelings and thoughts, desires and ideas.
Obama Refuses to Attend Justice Scalia’s Funeral
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.19.16
“All of life is partisan.” ~ Saul Alinsky In the 24 hours since Josh Earnest announced that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle would not attend the funeral of renowned U.S. Supreme Court Justice, much virtual ink has been...
Boxer Manny Pacquiao and Homosexuals Err
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.16.16
Boxer Manny Pacquiao has rightly apologized to “LGBTQP” activists for saying, “Do you see animals mating with the same sex? Animals are better because they can distinguish male from female. If men mate with men and women mate with women,...
Please Respond to ACLU Poll
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.12.16
The American Civil Litigation Lawlessness Licentiousness Liberties Union (ACLU) wants to know if gender-dysphoric persons should be able to change the “gender marker on their birth certificates without proof of transition-related surgery.” Take ACTION:  Please tell them by taking this...
Surprise, Parents! Co-Ed Restroom in North Shore High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.10.16
A couple of months ago, Deerfield High School (DHS) in Deerfield, Illinois quietly changed a multi-stall girls restroom to a co-ed restroom. Worse still the administration has not notified either parents or students. Rumors are circulating that the administration chose...
The Left is Pushing Hard Against Privacy Bills
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.04.16
The Leftist effort to sever objective immutable sex differences from both meaning and cultural recognition and to promote the fiction that one’s sex can change marches on. Within hours of the filing of the Pupil Physical Privacy Act (HB 4474)...
Courageous Lawmakers Fight for Student Privacy
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.28.16
State Representative Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) introduced the bi-partisan Pupil Physical Privacy Act (HB 4474), which if passed would require the following: [A] school board to designate each pupil restroom, changing room, or overnight facility accessible by multiple pupils simultaneously, whether...
Babies’ Lives Matter: Center for Medical Progress Ironies
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.26.16
Pro-life activist David Daleiden and an associate from the Center for Medical Progress, whose undercover exposés of Planned Parenthood abortionists’ cavalier discussions of the careful crushing and distribution of human body parts created a furor last summer, have been indicted....
Pastor David Jones on Homosexuality and Marriage
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.22.16
There has been a sustained assault on truth with regard to sexuality for the last 55 years. For the last 45 years that assault has included successful efforts to normalize homosexuality and gender dysphoria, efforts that have intensified over the...
What Does It Mean to Say Marriage Is Left to the States?
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.07.16
There are a number of issues that divide and/or confuse conservatives, including the claim that marriage should be left to the states. Some conservatives argue that whether homosexual unions should be legally recognized as marriages is a matter left to...
FDA Lifts Ban on Blood Donations from Men Who Have Sex With Men
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.21.15
After years of lobbying by homosexual activists, the FDA has lifted its lifetime ban on “men who have sex with men” (MSM)—which is the Centers for Disease Control designation—from donating blood. Homosexual activists view the ban as unjustly discriminatory, a...
Questions for Schools on Transgender Policies and Practices
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.14.15
It’s not just District 211, the largest high school district in Illinois, that’s allowing gender-dysphoric students to use opposite-sex facilities. Rumors are circulating that gender-dysphoric students, enabled by their deceived parents, are asking school districts all over Illinois for permission to use opposite-sex restrooms and locker rooms. School administrations are accommodating these requests (or demands) in diverse ways and doing so without community input, without parental notification, and without establishing policy. One of those districts is District 200, a K-12 district in DuPage County that serves Wheaton, Warrenville, and portions of Carol Stream, West Chicago, and Winfield, which has multiple gender-dysphoric students, at least one of whom—an actual girl—is allowed to use a curtained changing area in the boys’ locker room. This information has been withheld from the public.
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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