Articles by Laurie Higgins
![Princeton Law Professor on Classical School’s Endorsement of “Transgenderism” Princeton Law Professor on Classical School’s Endorsement of “Transgenderism”](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Robert-George.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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10.16.15
Princeton University law professor Robert P. George posted an alarming warning on his Facebook page recently about a Christian family who received a letter from the administration of their children’s private “classical” school in which parents were told the school...
![A Brief Word About the Incoherence of “Transgender” Locker Room Policy A Brief Word About the Incoherence of “Transgender” Locker Room Policy](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/shower.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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10.14.15
IFI’s opposition to, for example, a boy in a girls’ locker room is not based on fear that he may rape a girl—though that, of course, is a possibility.
Rather, our opposition emerges from the fact that physical embodiment per...
![We Got “Transgender” Trouble Right Here in District 211 We Got “Transgender” Trouble Right Here in District 211](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Dist-211.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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10.13.15
WARNING: In this article about a gender dysphoric boy’s pursuit of unfettered access to the girls’ locker room in an Illinois high school, I will be using the male pronoun because pronouns correspond to and denote objective biological sex. Politically-correct readers may want to stop reading now.
![Intellectual Cowardice of Chicago Tribune Columnist Intellectual Cowardice of Chicago Tribune Columnist](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Chicago-Tribune_rainbow.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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10.09.15
Rex Huppke demonstrated his usual glib condescension yesterday in his ridicule of a Tennessee county commissioner's odd proposed resolution. What is striking in Huppke's relentless efforts to mock anyone who believes marriage has an ontology central to which is sexual differentiation is that he studiously avoids engagement with the ideas expressed by the foremost scholars defending the historical understanding of the nature of marriage. Such avoidance smacks of intellectual dishonesty and cowardice.
![#ShoutYourAbortion #ShoutYourAbortion](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ShoutYourAbortion.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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09.24.15
“They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them.” ~Romans 2:15
In the liberal quest for unencumbered sexual license, there remains...
![Rod Dreher Predicts Kim Davis Will Usher in a Parade of Horribles Rod Dreher Predicts Kim Davis Will Usher in a Parade of Horribles](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Rod-Dreher_white-flag.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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09.10.15
Senior editor of The American Conservative, Rod Dreher, opposes Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis’ act of civil disobedience. As most adults know—with the possible exception of those interviewed on Watters’ World—Kim Davis is refusing to issue marriage licenses with her...
![Liberal Journalist Gets Marriage, the Bible, and Kim Davis Wrong Liberal Journalist Gets Marriage, the Bible, and Kim Davis Wrong](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Chicago-Tribune_rainbow_Magnum.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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09.09.15
If Chicago Tribune columnist and arch-defender of all things sexually deviant, Rex Huppke, had the humility to know that he doesn’t understand the Bible, he might refrain from using it foolishly to mock Christians.
In a column last week, he...
![Justified Civil Disobedience and Civil Servant Kim Davis Justified Civil Disobedience and Civil Servant Kim Davis](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Jefferson-Q.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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09.04.15
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said “Every public official in our democracy is subject to the rule of law. No one is above the law. That applies to the president of the United States and that applies to the...
![Protest Over Gender Confused Teenage Boy Using Girls’ Facilities Protest Over Gender Confused Teenage Boy Using Girls’ Facilities](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Perry.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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09.02.15
The disordered desires of a gender-confused teenage boy who wishes he were a girl have divided another community. On Monday, the efforts of this boy, who calls himself Lila Perry, to use the girls’ restrooms and locker room resulted in...
![Planned Parenthood is a “Volume Institution” Planned Parenthood is a “Volume Institution”](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PP.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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08.25.15
Cate Dyer, the lesbian founder and CEO of the fetal tissue procurement company StemExpress, tried doggedly to prohibit the release of the newest Center for Medical Progress undercover video in which she stars. Dyer, who happens to be the sister...
![Taradiddler Diana Rauner and Her LGBTQ-Allied Activist Hubby Taradiddler Diana Rauner and Her LGBTQ-Allied Activist Hubby](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Rauners1.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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08.21.15
Governor Bruce Rauner lied—or perhaps more precisely his wife, helpmeet, and mouthpiece, Diana Rauner, lied for him.
In a campaign ad, Mrs. Rauner stated with a Cheshire grin and a long nose that “Bruce doesn’t have a social agenda.”
Oh...
![Go in Through the Fetus’ Face Go in Through the Fetus’ Face](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Planned-Murderhood1.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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08.20.15
Do not avert your eyes from the sickening, sanitized savagery that Planned Parenthood and the U.S. government through law and subsidies perpetrates against weak, vulnerable, innocent humans—and then rationalize.
In the 7th video exposé of Planned Feticide Federation of...
![Urge Governor Rauner to Veto Deceitful, Vague, Anti-Autonomy Bill Urge Governor Rauner to Veto Deceitful, Vague, Anti-Autonomy Bill](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/rauner-desk.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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08.18.15
The politically expedient title of the anti-autonomy, anti-choice bill (HB 217) sitting on Governor Bruce Rauner’s desk points to its nebulous, overbroad, and deceitful content. It’s titled the “Youth Mental Health Protection Act.” I mean, who isn’t for “youth mental...
![Parents of Public School Students: Act Preemptively Parents of Public School Students: Act Preemptively](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Parents_Say-NO.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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08.13.15
Those parents whose children are enrolled in public schools have a moral obligation to protect the hearts and minds of their children from the propaganda to which increasing numbers of public school pseudo-educators are exposing children on the interrelated issues...
![Planned Parenthood Bakes Baby Parts into Its Nauseating Fiscal Cake Planned Parenthood Bakes Baby Parts into Its Nauseating Fiscal Cake](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PP_controversy_1.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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08.05.15
In the macabre, perverse universe in which Planned Parenthood doctors and administrators live and move and have their baby-devouring being, euphemistic language is essential. Melissa Farrell, Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast refers to her contribution to “the...