Articles by Laurie Higgins
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By Laurie Higgins
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08.01.15
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...
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.31.15
As a result of three videos from the Center for Medical Progress that have exposed the dark, sickening underbelly of Planned Parenthood, 31 Republicans and 1 Democrat have filed a resolution (HR 671) urging “the Illinois Department of...
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.31.15
Six weeks ago, I was privileged to be in the delivery room when my seventh grandchild was born. The only response to the doctor’s words “It’s a boy” were tears of ineffable joy.
This morning I heard those same words ...
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.22.15
The second secretly-recorded Planned Parenthood video is out, and like the first, it reveals that Planned Parenthood is staffed by Josef Mengele wannabe’s.
In this mindboggling video, Dr. Mary Gatter, president of Planned Parenthood’s Medical Directors Council, negotiates compensation for...
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.21.15
Pastor Douglas Wilson, one of IFI’s September Banquet speakers, has written an enormously helpful defense of the secret recording of the Planned Parenthood abortionist’s description of carefully crushing preborn baby bodies so as not to damage the merchandise, also known...
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.14.15
Humans have an astonishing capacity for embracing deception in the service of selfish and disordered desires. There is no more apt illustration of that truth than Planned Parenthood which has developed a ghastly organization that depends on deception to advance...
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.09.15
For the first time ever, IFI will be hosting two esteemed speakers, both of whom are prolific authors.
Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island, senior editor at Touchstone Magazine and a contributor to both LifeSiteNews and Crisis Magazine.
Douglas Wilson is the senior minister at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho; faculty member of New Saint Andrews College; one of the editors of the homeschooling Omnibus series; and apologist extraordinaire whose debates with famed atheist Christopher Hitchens were documented in the film Collision.
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.08.15
Leonard Pitts is out in orbit —I mean, over the moon—over the CEO of the Girl Scouts of Western Washington’s refusal of a $100,000 donation to the Girl Scouts that stipulated the money could not be used to support “transgender...
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.07.15
If I had a nickel for every time a liberal said it’s a slippery slope fallacy to claim that the legalization of homoerotic marriage would necessarily result in the legal recognition of plural unions, I would be a very rich...
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By Laurie Higgins
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07.01.15
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention just released a document titled “Here We Stand: An Evangelical Declaration on Marriage,” signed by scores of religious leaders. It is largely an excellent document that embodies an unequivocal,...
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By Laurie Higgins
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06.26.15
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Obergefell v. Hodges case provides yet more evidence that smart people can be monumentally foolish. This decision not only denies reality but also robs citizens of their right to self-government. From the gaseous...
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By Laurie Higgins
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06.26.15
I received two thoughtful messages in response to an article I wrote about heresies related to homosexuality making inroads into churches. The men who wrote were concerned that the list of denominations I included could be misinterpreted as suggesting that...
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By Laurie Higgins
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06.24.15
Forty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the iconic and horrific photo of a young girl running naked down a road, screaming in pain as her skin is burned away by napalm has now become transformed into an iconic photo of unfathomable forgiveness and God’s fathomless grace.
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By Laurie Higgins
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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),...
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By Laurie Higgins
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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...