Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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03.26.14
Just one day after announcing that World Vision U.S. would hire men and women in unions recognized by the government as homosexual “marriages,” it has reverted to its original policy that prohibits hiring those who engage in homosexual activity and affirm homosexual relationships.
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Laurie Higgins
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03.26.14
World Vision, a well-known, well-regarded, and well-funded Christian charity has decided to abandon its policy that prohibits the hiring of those who engage in homosexual activity. World Vision U.S. will now hire homosexuals as long as they are in a...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.25.14
Many Americans find President Obama’s obsession with income inequality troubling. Many think the goal of equality of outcome as opposed to equality of opportunity is misguided and harmful. Many are concerned with his hyper-focus on race, class, gender, and the...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.25.14
This week the U.S. Supreme Court hears a critically important religious freedom case. The Court will determine whether Hobby Lobby must provide contraceptive coverage to its employees, which would entail violating the religious beliefs of the company’s owners on a...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.23.14
Lesbian state representative and activist for all things homosexual, Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) has introduced yet another terrible piece of legislation that ultimately redounds to the detriment of children.
Rep. Cassidy has proposed “The Conversion Therapy Prohibition Act” (HB 5569), which...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.20.14
For those who care about how our hard-earned taxes are spent, take a look-see at the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI) for Chicago Public Schools that is being paid for by a $20 million federal grant.
Some of this money...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.15.14
If you want a clearer sense of whom we are paying to teach our children, read this.
Friday, I wrote this on IFI:
In order to know whether an idea embodies love, one must first know if it’s true. The...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.06.14
“Swallowing half an hour before closing time that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds”
(Aldous Huxley, Brave New World). I’ll give it a go once more for the...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.04.14
There is encouraging news to be found in the midst of what is most assuredly a culture darkening and coarsening as it moves away from Christ. It’s difficult to discern the encouraging news because our dominant news disseminators obscure it,...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.01.14
Recently, “progressive” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the dangerous expansion of Executive Branch power under the Obama Administration. This would be an excellent resource for high school students to study, both...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.28.14
Who’d a thunk it? Well-known homosexual writer and activist Andrew Sullivan responded to the Arizona debacle in a surprising blog post in which he makes two critical points rarely heard from the Left: First, he acknowledges that there is a...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.28.14
Someone needs to thump some sense into syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts for his claim that the now-vetoed Arizona religious freedom bill would have allowed “businesses to refuse service to gay people on religious grounds.” Not so, but more on that...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.27.14
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the law that would have protected the right of people of faith to refuse to be part of homosexual faux-weddings. In so doing, she helped chisel out another chink in the constitutional wall that protects...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.26.14
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) seeks again to exploit captive audiences and disrupt instructional time in public schools for the purposes of transforming the moral and political views of other people’s children through the Day of Silence...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.25.14
From his imperial throne, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has proclaimed that heretofore state attorneys general need not enforce state laws that define marriage as a sexually complementary union. According to the New York Times, Holder said that “officials...
