Articles by Laurie Higgins
Homosexuals Sue Christian Bed & Breakfast Owner for Refusing ‘Civil Union’ Ceremony
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.24.11
Attacks on religious liberty and freedom of conscience have started — mere weeks after Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed the ‘civil unions’ bill into law — just as we warned. While many conservatives think wisdom and political pragmatism dictate a...
Big Brother Comes to School Big Time
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.14.11
Efforts to exploit public education in the service of normalizing deviant sexuality grow ever more outrageous and dangerous. Illinoisans ignore the legislative mischief taking place in other states at their own peril. The latest legislative monstrosity has reared its ugly...
New Bill to Require Parents to Register Their Children with the State
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.03.11
Contact Sen. Maloney and your State Senator ask them to drop this unwarranted expansion of government. A deeply troubling bill (SB 136) has been proposed in the Illinois General Assembly by State Senator Edward D. Maloney (D-Chicago) that will affect...
“No Name-Calling Week”: More Indoctrination from GLSEN
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.25.11
There are approximately 180 days in a typical school year, and it appears that homosexual activists and their ideological compatriots would like to spend part of each and every one on homosexual indoctrination. We’ve got the Day of Silence, which...
IFI Press Release: King’s Legacy and Civil Rights Cause Misrepresented
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.16.11
“Civil Unions” Bill Not Analogous to Civil Rights Movement For years, homosexual activists and their allies have manufactured and exploited an absurd and offensive analogy between homosexuality and race in order to advance their moral and political agenda. Homosexualists use...
The “Vagina Dance” Taught in a Crystal Lake High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.10.11
A couple of months ago Crystal Lake’s Prairie Ridge High School Health teacher Jacqulyn Levin decided that the best way to teach her co-ed class of sophomore students the parts of the female reproductive anatomy was to use something she...
Eric Zorn & Homosexuality-Affirming “Ally Week” at St. Charles North High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.03.11
In early November 2010, suburban St. Charles North High School became embroiled in a controversy during yet another public school event designed to affirm homosexuality. In response to “Ally Week,” a pro-homosexual week sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight...
Chicago Tribune’s Propagandist for Homosexuality: Rex Huppke
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.08.10
I can’t say I was surprised by Rex Huppke’s Dec. 1, 2010 front-page Chicago Tribune story on the passage of the “civil union” bill, but I was certainly disappointed by its lack of objectivity. His sources were exclusively pro-homosexual, and...
Dan Savage Promotes Anti-Christian Evil
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.22.10
No matter what one thinks of the homosexuality-affirming “It Gets Better” project, do we really want the president of the United States to be associated with radical sex columnist Dan Savage, the creator of this campaign? “It Gets Better” is...
Economics Teacher Expels Student for Expressing Opinion
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.22.10
By now many have read about the incident that took place in a suburban Detroit high school. Teacher Jay McDowell expelled a student from his economics class because the student said that due to his Catholic faith, he does not...
ALA’s Ironic “Banned Books Week”
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.19.10
Several weeks ago, libraries across the country sanctimoniously participated in the ironic “educational” campaign: Banned Books Week, which should be called Disinformation Week. The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association (ALA), which sponsors Banned Books Week, has...
Gustavus Adolphus College Promotes Perversion to Freshmen
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.11.10
Editor’s Note: Reader Discretion Is Advised Two videos of a freshmen orientation presentation at Gustavus Adolphus College, a small Lutheran College in St. Peter, Minnesota, have come to light that expose the repugnant ideas and images that college students at...
They’re Here, They’re “Queer” and They Demand Cupcakes
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.05.10
Perhaps you’ve already heard about the most recent assault on citizens’ freedom of conscience, which happened right here in the Midwest. The owners of the Just Cookies bakery in Indianapolis, David and Lily Stockton, politely declined to fill a special...
Governor Quinn in the Minority in Rejecting Title V Abstinence Education Funds
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.28.10
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently thanked Governor Patrick Quinn (D) for rejecting Title V federal funds for abstinence education and praised him for turning instead to the new federal program for funding comprehensive sex ed called the Personal...
Astonishing Data from the Center for Disease Control
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.24.10
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) just released the information below, which must be disseminated in public high schools. In light of the astonishing HIV infection rates among men who have sex with men, all public high schools have an...
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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