Articles by Laurie Higgins
Cook County Judge Coleman Disregards Process
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.21.14
The ignorance, deceit, and hubris of homosexual activists and their ideological allies are on display today. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman decided that Cook County clerks may grant marriage licenses to homosexual couples even before the Illinois same-sex “marriage”...
Lousy “Parentage” Bill
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.19.14
Economist Jennifer Roback-Morse has repeatedly warned that intentionally severing the tie between biological parents and their offspring will result in greater intrusive government involvement with and regulation of family life not less as some liberals and libertarians assert. Take a...
Google Doodle, Putin and Our Public Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.11.14
Google’s recent “doodle” announces to the world that Google is gaga over homosexuality-affirming propaganda for minors. Google’s doodle pokes a virtual rainbow-colored flag in the eye of Russian president Vladimir Putin for signing into law a bill that protects minors...
Is Traditional Marriage a Myth?
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.10.14
Chicago Tribune columnist does it again. Tribune columnist Steve Chapman argues that the notion of “traditional marriage” is a myth. What’s almost comical about his “argument” is that all the evidence he marshals in support of his thesis actually...
Email Exchange with Homosexual Journalist/Notre Dame Alumni
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.06.14
Following my open letter to Notre Dame University president, Rev. John Jenkins, regarding the administration’s decision to officially recognize an “LGBT” student organization, I received both a phone call and email from a Cambridge, Massachusetts homosexual activist and freelance journalist,...
What a “Progressive” Thinks of IFI’s Grammy Article—(yikes)
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.29.14
Yesterday’s article on the Grammy’s generated a lot of impassioned responses, including a shocking email that can be read here. **Caution: This is the most depraved, blasphemous, and hateful email IFI has ever received (which is saying a lot), so...
The Grammys and the Destruction of Marriage
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.28.14
This past Sunday night’s Grammy awards was a tragic freak show that demonstrated the entertainment industry’s arrogance, ignorance of marriage, and disregard for children. It was a gawdy spitball hurled in the all-seeing eye of a holy God. The spectacle...
Which is Worse: Selling Unborn Babies or Killing Them
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.22.14
An 18-year-old woman in Chile has been arrested for trying to sell her unborn baby on Facebook. In Chile where abortion is legal—as it is in the United States—a young woman may kill but not sell her unborn child.  This ...
Andrew Cuomo to Conservatives: You Have No Power Here! Be Gone.
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.20.14
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-New York) has arrogantly proclaimed that “extreme conservatives” have no place in New York. And who are these “extremists”? Those who Cuomo hopes will leave New York include those who believe that women do not have a...
Russia’s Anti-Propaganda Law Riles Pro-Homosexuality Crowd
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.06.14
The cacophonous voices of homosexual activists and their ideological allies are getting louder as the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia approach. They’re protesting Russia’s new federal law pertaining to homosexuality. Surely, this law must be draconian, reasonable people think, to...
Ex-Lesbian Goes Straight A Non-Story?
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.01.14
Apparently, “sexual orientation” is not as set in stone as homosexual activists and their ideological allies would have us believe. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been married for nineteen years to a woman who self-identified as a...
Reject Homosexuality-Affirming “Education”
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.30.13
As 2013 comes to a close, I want to make a few observations on the pervasive assault on sexuality truths—observations which are relevant to those with and without children. “Progressives” wax jubilant over the sexual revolution that continues unabated and...
Duck Dynasty and Truth Win
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.28.13
Duck Dynasty’s raggedy, curmudgeonly Phil Robertson has displayed a moral courage and boldness that should shame many (perhaps most) religious leaders in this country. And in so doing, he has won a huge victory for truth, religious liberty, and diversity....
Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson: the Hairy Canary in the Rainbow Coal Mine
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.19.13
One of the stars of the popular A & E show Duck Dynasty, Phil Robertson, has been indefinitely suspended from the program. His crime was making some politically incorrect statements about homosexuality in a condescension-dripping interview with GQ magazine...
The Devastating Effects of Egg Donation
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.03.13
In my recent article on the effects of same-sex “marriage,” I mentioned Alana Newman, a young woman who was the product of an anonymous sperm donation. She is the founder of the Anonymous Us Project, the goal of which is...
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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