Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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03.20.13
Society thinks teens are especially vulnerable to peer pressure, peer approval, and the need to conform. We smile at them paternalistically and pat ourselves on the back that we adults are courageous non-conformists, able to leap tall cultural hurdles in...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.28.13
Eliminating sexual complementarity from the legal definition of marriage necessarily means formally declaring that marriage has no inherent connection to reproductive potential. Those who seek to redefine marriage—marriage revisionists—claim that because many marriages don’t result in children, the issue of...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.21.13
William Wilberforce said, “Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted,...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.21.13
Yesterday, there was a rally in support of natural marriage at the Capitol Rotunda in Springfield.
Estimates of the numbers of attendees are between 3,000 and 5,000 — and this on a bitter cold winter day.
Last night, WGN News...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.18.13
Since the mainstream media never does their job when it comes to issues related to homosexuality, ordinary citizens must do it. The mainstream media continually ask conservative lawmakers hard questions about the legalization of same-sex marriage, while never asking hard...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.16.13
The legal recognition of same-sex unions as marriages will have far-reaching, devastating and pernicious cultural consequences, including within our public schools. Here are some of the ineluctable changes in public education that Illinoisans can expect if “same-sex marriage” is legalized...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.07.13
As a manipulative political stratagem, the Left propagates the notion that the normalization of homosexuality is a cultural inevitability. Belief in this inevitability dispirits conservatives and depletes whatever reservoir of motivation they may have to dissent, thus effectively surrendering the...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.22.13
No, the title of this piece is not referring to President Barack Obama’s “say what?” comparison of individual action to muskets and militia:
For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.15.13
Yesterday, I discussed the dishonesty of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) when reporting on the ill-conceived “transgender” policy at East Aurora High School in Aurora, Illinois and the school board’s dissolution of the ad hoc committee that...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.14.13
Anyone who’s concerned about the increasing involvement of deviant sexuality activists in our public schools should pay close attention to recent events in Aurora, Illinois—events that may unfold further. Those who believe the issue is over do not understand the...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.10.13
Earlier this week, the presidential inaugural committee announced that President Obama has chosen Richard Blanco to be the 2013 inaugural poet. Blanco, it just so happens, is Hispanic and homosexual. Liberals would label a choice like this “tokenism” if made...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.10.12
Sunday was a depressing news day. Here’s what purported “conservatives” George Will, Mary Matalin, and Matthew Dowd had to say about same-sex marriage:
George Will: “This decision by the Supreme Court came 31 days after an Election Day in which...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.06.12
On Thursday, Nov. 29, at the second meeting of the East Aurora High School ad hoc committee formed to revisit the possibility of establishing policy regarding students who experience gender confusion, over 120 people showed up, including approximately 10 pastors...
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Laurie Higgins
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11.13.12
The East Aurora High School Board of Education recently passed a policy that would have permitted gender-confused students to use the restrooms and locker rooms designated for those of the opposite sex (i.e., of the sex that these students wish...
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Laurie Higgins
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11.12.12
I had other plans for today until I read the Chicago Tribune editorial that ebulliently celebrates the rejection in four states of the central defining feature of marriage—sexual complementarity.
In a display of astonishing hubris, the Trib editorial board has...
