Articles by Laurie Higgins
Critical Race Theory Hide and Seek
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.19.23
Project Veritas has just released another exposé in which a profiteering propagandist who self-identifies as an “educator” admits that he promotes critical race theory to and in public schools by omitting the words “critical race theory.” Yes, Americans really are that gullible.
Illinois Buzzards Want Your Kids
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.11.23
image_pdfimage_printThere’s a grand act of un-creation taking place all across this nation. Leftists are busy with this ugly business of un-creating decency, order, justice, compassion, and beauty, and children play a central role in this ugly business. To leftists, children...
Homosexual Lawmakers Abuse Legal System to Abuse Minors
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.06.23
Leftists have redefined “hate.” To them hatred refers to ideas and moral beliefs that they think harm others. So, using that definition, how do leftists hate people? Let's count the ways. Well, not all the ways. That would suck dry the wellsprings of hope from which we draw at the beginning of each New Year and which are granted to us by a gracious God who has jobs for us to do—with joy.
In 2023 Resolve to Resist Pride and Fear in Order to Preserve Liberty
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.30.22
image_pdfimage_printTwo recent conversations over two days with two different people were variations on the theme of cultural dis-integration—or, perhaps more aptly, anti-culture integration. We are in the midst of a revolution propelled by the integration of the government—including government schools—big...
Fetishist Who Pretends to Be Female Arrested for Indecent Exposure
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.22.22
Haven’t leftists sanctimoniously proclaimed that no “trans”-identifying man would ever harm women in women’s private spaces?

Haven’t leftists bristled with faux-umbrage at the suggestion that allowing objectively male persons in women’s private spaces will result in predators pretending to be women to easily access their victims?
Help Us Uphold What is Good and True in Illinois
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.21.22
Children are growing up in an America where adults celebrate the dismemberment of children in their mothers’ wombs.

They are growing up where cross-dressing adult men twerk in children’s departments of public libraries, where adults tell children that some women have penises, where adults allow cross-dressing men into locker rooms with young girls and women, where teachers assign pornographic books to minors, and where surgeons profit from cutting off the breasts off 13-year-old girls.
Biden Appointee Sam Brinton a Fetishist, Liar and Thief
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.13.22
Biden’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, the notoriously creepy Sam Brinton, is in the news again and again for all the wrong reasons. Correction: Brinton finally lost his job on Monday after not one but two luggage thefts at two airports: one in Las Vegas and one in Minneapolis. His luggage of choice is women’s luggage where can be found women’s jewelry, undergarments, and clothing.
Wheaton, Illinois Middle School’s Offensive “Gay” Christmas Display
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.09.22
In a brazen act of anti-Christian disrespect and cultural appropriation, Edison Middle School (CUSD 200) in Wheaton has chosen to deface a Christian symbol that celebrates the birth of Christ by displaying a full-size rainbow-colored “gay pride” Christmas tree during in honor of homoeroticism. Originally, the tree also included handmade pink ornaments with the messages “Be Gay Be Slay” and *Gay Panic*.
What Do Leftist Teachers Really Think About Conservatives?
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.08.22
image_pdfimage_printIf you want to know what “progressive” teachers think of conservative parents, please take a gander at the following blog post from recently retired Deerfield High School English teacher (and former colleague) David Hirsch. On October 6, 2022, Hirsch published...
SCOTUS to Decide if Christians Must Endorse Anti-Weddings
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.06.22
image_pdfimage_printOn Monday, December 5, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, another case that pits the purported rights of same-sex couples to force Christian business-owners to create products (or provide services) that express messages related...
District 211 Colluder/Female Impersonator LaSaia Wade Allegedly Steals from His Non-Profit
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.02.22
A transgender activist known as a leading voice for transgender people in Chicago, Illinois, has been fired from the LGBTQ center the activist founded after allegedly diverting the organization's funds to "unknown" bank accounts.
Sexual Deviance Destroying Marriage and Religious Freedom
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.01.22
As you read this, remember how many times leftists assured Americans that homosexuals wanted nothing more than to be left alone to do their thing in the privacy of their bedrooms. And remember how they asserted that the legalization of same-sex “marriage” would affect no one, no way, no how.
Leftists Want to Enshrine a Right to Exterminate the Unborn in Illinois’ Constitution
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.30.22
Leftist boomers and their ideological spawn together have created the worst generations, shameful heirs of a noble legacy hard-won by our forebears. Leftist boomers, taking their cues from pervert Alfred Kinsey, hedonist man-child Hugh Hefner, and addled Timothy Leary, ushered in the drug and sexual revolutions... They believe their Deep Thoughts, intense feelings, and overactive groins determine morality...
High-End Fashion House Balenciaga Panders to Perverts
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.26.22
By now many have heard that the high-end fashion company Balenciaga was forced by public pressure to pull and apologize for its recent ad campaign featuring preschool children holding teddy bears wearing what looks to average Americans like bondage paraphernalia.
Colorado Club Q Shooter Identifies as “Non-Binary”?
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.23.22
Earlier this week, court filings by the attorneys for the alleged shooter from the LGBTQ night club in Colorado Springs revealed the shooter is non-binary and goes by "they/them" pronouns and will be addressed by the title Mx.
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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