Warning: Comprehensive Sex Ed Returning to Springfield
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.09.13
Our relentless “progressive” lawmakers hell-bent on the early sexualization of children and the exploitation of public schools to normalize homosexuality have re-introduced the comprehensive sex ed bill (HB 2675), which if passed will foist on all schools the kind of...
Teachers Promote Same-Sex “Marriage” During School in District 113
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.04.13
The week before the Illinois Senate was scheduled to vote on a bill to legalize same-sex “marriage,” student members of the Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) at Deerfield High School sent this email to every staff and faculty member: Dear...
The SPLC’s Newest Ideas for Public Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.02.13
In addition to cowardice, one of the reasons that conservatives fail to oppose the myriad ways “progressives” exploit public schools to transform other people’s children into their social and political image is that we dismiss each new effort of theirs...
“The Truth About Medical Marijuana” Conference in Palos Hills
03.26.13
Truth and Consequences of Marijuana as Medicine   A fact-checked, research-based discussion about marijuana and Illinois Our speakers will sort fact from fiction about how marijuana impacts health and safety, Illinois youth, drugged driving and the workplace. They will explain what...
Worried About Bullying?  Be More Worried About Govt. “Fixed” Schools
02.28.13
Let’s face it: Kids can be really dumb. I know, because I was once a kid. In kindergarten, I accidentally tied myself to a playground tetherball pole, leaving myself stranded and dangling when the recess bell rang. In sixth grade...
Pre-K Won’t Help Kids
02.28.13
President Obama ended his State of the Union speech on a warm-and-fuzzy note by calling for Pre-K programs for almost all children. The best thing he could do for pre-kindergarten children is to make sure he doesn’t hang trillions of dollars of debt around their necks, but that isn’t the route he is taking.
To This Day Project
02.26.13
Here's evidence that bullying can be addressed in compelling, innovative, and apolitical ways that do not introduce or affirm controversial, non-factual beliefs about homosexuality:
Homosexual Faux-Marriage and Public Education
By Laurie Higgins   |   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...
What We Should Learn from Deviant Sexuality Activists in Aurora Illinois School District (Part 2)
By Laurie Higgins   |   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...
What We Should Learn from Deviant Sexuality Activists in Aurora Illinois School District (Part 1)
By Laurie Higgins   |   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...
Gender-Confused Committee Member Vilifies Aurora Faith Community
By Laurie Higgins   |   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...
The GOP and Social Issues: Sophomoric Arguments at the Wall Street Journal
11.21.12
By discarding its support for life, marriage, and religious freedom, the GOP, contrary to what some party members think, will doom itself to minority status.
East Aurora High School Troubling “Transgender” Policy Update
By Laurie Higgins   |   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...
Southern Poverty Law Center Lies Again
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.01.12
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) educational arm Teaching Tolerance created yet another school event intended in part to normalize homosexuality and gender confusion. The SPLC claims that 2,800 schools across the country participated in this event, which is called...
Great News from East Aurora High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.18.12
Thursday evening, ABC News reported  that the East Aurora High School Board of Education had already decided to rescind the misguided policy on gender confusion that it had adopted on Monday evening. The board is scheduled to meet on Friday...
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