Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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08.28.12
In the past week, two troubling comments regarding abortion caught my attention—one of which justifiably caught the attention of the entire country. Once again much heat but little light was generated in the ensuing brouhaha.
The first troubling comment was...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.24.12
It’s probably too much to hope for, but perhaps the day of reckoning for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has come. Perhaps the shooting last week at the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington D.C. will bring scrutiny to...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.19.12
Oh, for the good old days when the term “hate group” referred to groups that actually hated someone. Now the term “hate group” refers to any group that expresses political, philosophical, moral, or theological beliefs with which the far-left Southern...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.30.12
**Caution: Reader discretion advised.**
A study conducted by Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas compared the “social, emotional, and relational” outcomes for children raised in different family structures, including children raised by heterosexual parents and those raised in homes...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.23.12
Doesn’t it warm the cockles of your heart to know that Planned Parenthood (PP) has expressed its condolences to the family of a young woman who bled to death on Friday following her second trimester abortion at the Planned Parenthood...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.19.12
In light of all the harsh media criticism of Romeny for Bain Capital's outsourcing, I wonder if liberals should divest from, boycott, and indict all the evil companies that outsource, including the following:
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Laurie Higgins
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07.18.12
Wheaton College President Philip Ryken sent a letter to alumni today to share that the Wheaton College Board of Trustees has filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandate which “requires the insurance plans...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.11.12
Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church has lost its collective theological mind. On Monday, July 9, 2012, the Episcopal Church General Convention voted to add the terms “gender identity and expression” to its anti-discrimination canon. That’s seems at minimum odd because...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.10.12
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce just released its report on sex education. Liberal proponents of comprehensive sex ed who profit from promoting early sexualization of children, premarital sex, sex severed from morality, promiscuity as entertainment,...
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Laurie Higgins
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06.29.12
The Wemstroms expressed their regret that a recent proposed bullying bill (HB 5290) failed to pass in the Illinois Senate [“Bullying bill should have been passed,” Freeport Journal-Standard June 26] and laid the blame for this failure on the Illinois...
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Laurie Higgins
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06.18.12
Lambda Legal in cahoots with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois are suing the Cook County Clerk for purportedly violating the Constitution of Illinois when Cook County refused to issue marriage licenses to men who sought to marry...
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Laurie Higgins
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06.11.12
There’s a remarkable news story coming out of Erie, Illinois. A wise and courageous school board has voted to remove a homosexuality-affirming picture book titled The Family Book from its elementary school library. Further, it has voted to remove all...
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Laurie Higgins
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06.01.12
Yesterday in Springfield, knowing that she wouldn’t have the votes to get the comprehensive sex ed bill passed, the bill’s chief House sponsor, State Representative Camille Lilly (D-Chicago) decided not to call it for a vote. This is a huge...
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Laurie Higgins
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05.29.12
HB 5290 -- an unnecessary "bullying" bill that promotes "youth programming" and "restorative measures" which will used to shape students' beliefs about homosexuality and gender confusion -- failed in the Illinois Senate by a vote of 29-21-06 late in the afternoon on May 29th.
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Laurie Higgins
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05.23.12
When it comes to the topic of homosexuality, I find most Chicago Tribune editors and columnists intellectually fraudulent in their efforts to normalize homosexuality. They rarely—if ever—respond to the best conservative arguments being made by the best conservative scholars. In addition, they rarely—if ever—respond to the most foundational assumptions, preferring instead to treat the assumptions embedded in terms like “sexual orientation” and discussions of equality, as if they’re proven facts.
