Articles by Laurie Higgins
The Truth About Harvey Milk
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.17.12
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that President Barack Obama invited the obscene, Christian-hating, homosexual, manboy Dan Savage to the White House. After all, President Obama’s  “Safe School Czar” was the homosexual founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN),...
Bullying Bill Exposed Part II
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.11.12
For those who despite all evidence to the contrary still believe that the bullying amendment that is pending in the Illinois Senate is centrally about stopping bullying, please read what one of Illinois’ chief homosexual activists organizations, Equality Illinois, recently...
This Momentary Marriage: Ian & Larissa’s Story
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.08.12
This inspiring and compelling short video reveals by contrast what a diminished (or perverse) view of marriage society has and is passing on to our children:
The New Bullying Amendment Exposed
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.05.12
IFI readers, please, whether you have children in schools or not, take seriously the assault on the minds and consciences of students, and take action against the newly amended and completely unnecessary anti-bullying bill: HB 5290. IFI has requested that...
Dan Savage Responds
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.27.12
With Bill Clinton-esque rhetorical slipperiness, Dan Savage responds to my criticism of his anti-Christian hate speech by citing a video from which I did not quote and to which I did not provide a link in either of my two articles this week. About that video, he asks the following:
Dan Savage Elmhurst College Update
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.25.12
WARNING: Not for younger readers My article on Dan Savage’s upcoming speaking engagement at Elmhurst College was posted and sent out late Monday afternoon. By early Tuesday morning, we discovered that several of Savage’s YouTube videos had been “removed by...
Homosexual Sex Columnist Dan Savage and Elmhurst College
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.23.12
Let's hope that audience members at the Dan Savage speaking engagement this coming Sunday, April 29, 2012 at Elmhurst College demonstrate the good sense and courage that several high school students recently demonstrated. Dan Savage, the vulgar, vitriol-spewing, homosexual sex columnist was for some bizarre reason invited to be the Friday keynote speaker at a national convention for high school journalism students held in Seattle, Washington last week.
New “Bullying” Bill Passes Illinois House
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.29.12
How did they vote? IFI strongly opposes the bill proposed by lesbian activist State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago).  Sixty votes were needed to pass this bill in the Illinois House, and it passed by a vote of 61-49-2. It will...
New Campaign by Activists to Normalize Homosexuality in Public Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.16.12
Perhaps some remember the loathsome and vulgar campaign that has young children using the F-word in a video series to promote affirmation of homosexuality. Well, they have a new campaign and the creator, Luke Montgomery, sent IFI an email about...
New Anti-Bullying Bill in Springfield
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.12.12
Not only did Illinois pass a terrible “anti-bullying” law two years ago, but now lesbian activist and appointed State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) has proposed an amendment that has the potential to make school “bullying” policies even more intrusive. Here...
School-Based “Health Clinics”
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.07.12
District 116 in Round Lake, Illinois is embroiled in a controversy over a proposal to put a “school-based health center” (formerly called school-based health clinics) in Round Lake High School. School-based health centers are a creation of the Left. The...
Why Parents Should Keep Their Children Home from School on the Day of Silence
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.01.12
On Friday April, 12, 2019 the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is once again exploiting public schools to promote homosexuality and gender confusion as moral and normative through the political protest called the Day of Silence. A coalition...
Komen Buckles to Pressure from the Far Left
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.03.12
So, if Planned Parenthood receives the entirety of the $700,000 that the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure were donating to Planned Parenthood before they weren’t for a day, and Planned Parenthood retains the $650,000 in new donations, they...
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.03.12
Shortly after the deceitfully titled “Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act” passed in Illinois, homosexuals began their unholy assault on adoption agencies. A Southern Illinois adoption agency, formerly called Catholic Social Services, that has been affiliated with the Catholic...
GLSEN’s Outrageous Elementary School Toolkit
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.19.12
The latest pedagogical assault on truth, decency, and parental rights by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was revealed on Jan. 18,2012 and should serve as the slap upside the head that conservatives need. GLSEN simultaneously released the...
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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