Articles by Laurie Higgins
Equal Rights Amendment: A War on Women
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.29.14
The hubris and dishonesty of “progressives” continue to astound. They proclaim through their sycophantic mouthpieces in the mainstream press that conservatives are waging war on women when in reality, it is “progressives” who pursue policies that hurt women and their...
The Resurrected ERA Must Be Defeated
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.20.14
Thanks to Illinois Senators Heather Steans (D-Chicago), Mattie Hunter (D-Chicago), David Koehler (D-Peoria), Iris Martinez (D-Chicago), and Pat McGuire (D-Joliet), the Equal Rights Amendments (SJRCA 75) is rearing its ugly, genderless head again. These lawmakers, at the urging of Governor...
The Days of Socially Acceptable Christianity Are Over
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.18.14
Last week, Princeton University law professor Robert P. George delivered the following speech titled “Ashamed of the Gospel?” at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Every faithful follower of Christ—Catholic and Protestant—should read this speech. Pastors and priests should read it...
Michael Sam and Cultural Degradation
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.13.14
For the homosexuality-affirming movement to hold culture tightly in its foul grip, those for whom same-sex attraction and activity define “identity” must capture the hearts and minds of children who are our future. Hence the unholy clutching and scrabbling to...
Hagel, Lambert, and Piazza=Monday News Blues
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.12.14
After a lovely Mother’s Day, I awoke to a dispiriting collection of news stories that point to the rapid degradation of truth and, therefore, the public weal. Here are just three: 1.)  Barack Obama’s Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, wants the...
The Sterilization of Abortion
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.09.14
If there can be anything related to abortion that can be called a gift, it is the repugnant video made by Emily Letts of her own abortion. Letts, a “patient advocate” at the Cherry Hill Women’s Center in New Jersey...
Throuples, Twincest, and Remembering
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.07.14
Remember what the world has taught Remember the days when homosexual activists told the soothing lie that all they sought was tolerance—the freedom to be left alone to engage in homoerotic acts in private? Remember when they mocked conservatives into...
Coldplay’s Chris Martin on Marital Love
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.28.14
Coldplay front man Chris Martin says this on his “conscious uncoupling” (also known to mere mortals as divorce) from Gwyneth Paltrow: This was more a realization about trying to grow up basically… if you can’t open yourself up, you can’t ...
California Attorneys Seek to Bar Judges from Boy Scout Affiliation
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.23.14
Transgressive sexuality trumps–well, everything Last week liberal Slate Magazine writer William Saletan made a semi-effective attempt at satire, proposing that all employees in corporate America who donated to Prop 8 in California six years ago be fired like Mozilla’s CEO...
Homosexual Pedophiles in Hollywood? shocking…
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.23.14
Confession: I’m not into superheroes—well, I’m not into comic book superheroes. Real superheroes, I love. As a result of my lack of interest in comic book superheroes, I have never seen an X-Men movie, nor even read a review of one—until today. What prompted me to read about the X-Men movies is a hair-raising lawsuit filed by 31-year-old Michael Egan who is accusing X-Men writer and director Bryan Singer of drugging and raping him when Egan was between the ages of 15-17 and openly homosexual Singer was 32.
Random Thoughts on the  Rapacious Rainbow Revolution
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.22.14
Random thoughts on the homoerotic cultural revolution: 1.)  I received an email last week from a Christian who was upset that I published the loathsome video of Dan Savage even though I provided ample warning that the content was offensive....
The True Face of “Anti-Bullying”: Dan Savage
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.08.14
As the Illinois House of Representatives in Springfield stands poised to pass yet another homosexuality-affirming “anti-bullying” bill out of committee and as our public schools prepare for yet another homosexuality-affirming Day of Silence—all of which are sponsored by homosexual activists—it’s...
Mozilla CEO Forced Out: The “Resignation” Heard Round the World
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.04.14
It shouldn’t have taken the forced resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich for the Left to admit that homosexual activists and their water-carrying ideological servants have no interest in dialogue, diversity, or tolerance. Jack-booted homosexualists demanded that Eich, co-founder of...
State Representative Kelly Cassidy’s At It Again
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.04.14
UGLY-HEAD-REARING ALERT Two years ago, yet another “anti-bullying” law (HB 5290) was defeated in the Illinois Senate. It has now been resurrected by one of Springfield’s most troubling homosexual activist lawmakers, State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) as HB 5707. Particular...
World Vision Needs Leadership Changes
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.01.14
Although the tempest surrounding World Vision’s policy change and abrupt reversal of policy change on hiring men and women in homosexual unions recognized legally as “marriages” has died down, the trickier issue of trust restoration remains. For many theologically orthodox...
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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