Articles by Laurie Higgins
![Hurling Boulders at the Duggars Hurling Boulders at the Duggars](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/JoshDuggar.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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06.09.15
The Duggar controversy illuminates the truth that the cultural battle in which Christians are engaged is first and foremost a battle with principalities and powers: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the...
![Academia Abandons Wisdom, Then Reality Academia Abandons Wisdom, Then Reality](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/I-love_buttons.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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06.04.15
“Progressives,” always plagued by inconsistency and hypocrisy, have been for years waxing self-righteous about their deep commitments to diversity, to “honoring all voices,” and to “critical thinking.” They’ve also been devotees of relativism, subjectivism, radical autonomy, and deconstructionism. But when it comes to homosexuality and gender confusion, all liberal principles are abandoned in their voguish, slavish devotion to absolute, transcendent, eternal pro-perversion orthodoxy.
![Scientists Oppose “Conversion” Therapy Bans for Gender-Confused Minors Scientists Oppose “Conversion” Therapy Bans for Gender-Confused Minors](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Vote-No-to-HB-217.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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05.28.15
In a stunning, counter-cultural op-ed appearing in the LA Times and Chicago Tribune, Dr. Eric Vilain, professor of pediatrics and human genetics at UCLA and director of the Center for Gender-Based Biology, and J. Michael Bailey, psychology professor at Northwestern...
![SCOTUS Hearings on Same-Sex Faux-Marriage SCOTUS Hearings on Same-Sex Faux-Marriage](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Marriage3.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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04.29.15
This is a collection of random thoughts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearings on whether to deconstruct marriage and refashion it in accordance with the desires of homosexuals.
Some of my thoughts are in response to comments made by U.S....
![LGBT Activists’ Comical Rhetorical Ingenuity and Conversion Therapy Bans LGBT Activists’ Comical Rhetorical Ingenuity and Conversion Therapy Bans](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Screen-Shot.png)
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Laurie Higgins
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04.27.15
The Left believes minors should be able to access medical help in rejecting their unchosen, unwanted physical embodiment but then wants to prohibit minors from accessing medical help in rejecting their unchosen, unwanted same-sex attraction. So, how do “LGBTQIAAP” activists...
![Urgent Need to Address Gender Confusion in Public Schools Urgent Need to Address Gender Confusion in Public Schools](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/I-am-Jazz.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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04.23.15
Recently at Horace Mitchell Primary School, a K-3 school in Kittery Pointe, Maine, parents were sent a letter explaining that school guidance counselor Dana Rickerich had read a picture book to 20 of the 22 classes about a boy (yes,...
![State Lawmaker Wants Taxpayers to Subsidize Killing “Unplanned” and “Unwanted” Babies State Lawmaker Wants Taxpayers to Subsidize Killing “Unplanned” and “Unwanted” Babies](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/HB-4013_Oppose.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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04.10.15
State Representative Scott Drury (D-Highwood) wrote this to a constituent who opposes HB 4013*, the bill that would remove all restrictions on taxpayer-funded abortions:
Thank you for your email. As a devoted husband and father of two children, I have...
![Progressive Educators’ Dreams for Other People’s Children Progressive Educators’ Dreams for Other People’s Children](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/dayofsilence_walkout.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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04.09.15
Since Christians are sending their children to government schools—often out of necessity—where they will be taught that soul-destroying homoerotic activity is good and that disapproval of it is hateful, parents should be aware of what many liberal teachers think of...
![Cowardice, Courage, and Cakes Cowardice, Courage, and Cakes](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/gay-cake.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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04.08.15
In a recent article about the upcoming political protest in public schools sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), I referred to the “sickening sweetness” of increasing numbers of Christians. By that expression, I am not suggesting...
![Surprising Connection Between Homosexuality and Race Surprising Connection Between Homosexuality and Race](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Behind-the-Curtain.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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03.24.15
Homosexuals and their ideological allies are fond of promoting a pernicious comparison of race, which has no inherent features relative to desire or behavior, to homosexuality, which is constituted by subjective desire and immoral volitional acts.
Far better analogies for...
![Should Christian Children Be Expected To Do What Christian Adults Do Not Should Christian Children Be Expected To Do What Christian Adults Do Not](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DOS.jpeg)
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Laurie Higgins
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03.23.15
The halcyon days for Christians in America are over. A time of persecution and stigmatization of Christians is just over the horizon. It’s time for Christians to wipe the gold dust from their eyes left over from over two hundred...
![Government and Teachers Oppose Archbishop Cordileone and Catholic Doctrine Government and Teachers Oppose Archbishop Cordileone and Catholic Doctrine](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Archbishop.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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03.18.15
Last month, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone published a statement on Catholic teaching derived from the Catechism of the Catholic Church that he intends to add to the faculty and staff handbook that governs four Catholic high schools in...
![Troubling Parentage Bill Resurrected Troubling Parentage Bill Resurrected](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Three-parents.png)
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Laurie Higgins
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03.17.15
State Representative Kelly Burke (D-Evergreen Park) has reintroduced the Parentage Act of 2015 (now HB 1531). The bill’s sponsors have caved to the anti-family dictates of homosexuals who demanded troubling language be restored to a prior incarnation of the bill....
![PARCC-Testing Company Caught Spying on Test-Takers PARCC-Testing Company Caught Spying on Test-Takers](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Parccpearson.png)
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Laurie Higgins
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03.14.15
Confession # 1: I am not now nor have I ever been a member of a conspiracy group.
That said, enthusiastic supporters of more, more, and MORE federal bureaucratic intrusion into the lives of parents, students, and public education via...
![More Disturbing Info on Planet Fitness Crossdresser More Disturbing Info on Planet Fitness Crossdresser](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/pf-judgementfree_1.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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03.10.15
Imagine your wife or girlfriend, or 16-year-old daughter, granddaughter, niece, or sister is changing into her gym clothes in a Planet Fitness women's locker room and in walks "Carlotta" Sklodowska, the man at the swirling center of the controversy.