Articles by Laurie Higgins
Leftist “Illinois Women March on Springfield”
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.25.17
image_pdfimage_printIf there were laws requiring truth in political advertising, today’s evasively-named “Illinois Women March on Springfield” would be called “Illinois Feminists’ Jackbooted March for Womb-Killing and Sexual Perversity.” “Progressive” feminists will be stomping into Springfield later today lobbying...
Dove Ad Features Real Dad Pretending to Be Real Mom
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.20.17
Dove has just released a sad and repellent ad promoting its new product line: Baby Dove. The ad features young women sharing their views of mothering, most of which amount to self-indulgent, self-referential navel-gazing. And then there’s the fabulous Token ‘o’ the Day, a cross-dressing father trying to pass as a mother who tells us that when it comes to mothering “There’s no one right way to do it all.”
Stop the Anemic Responses to School Indoctrination Days
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.19.17
According to a survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, there is a marked increase in millennials “identifying” as bisexual or as other peculiar sexual “identities.”
“Trans”-Cultism and Sex-Selection Abortions
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.13.17
Anti-truth claims will always collapse into incoherence and self-contradiction, if not under the weight of the individual and cultural destruction that follows in their wake. Let’s look at the confluence of several “progressive” anti-truth claims and the intellectual and moral incoherence that results from embracing them:
Questions About Restrooms and Locker Rooms Leftists Must Answer
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.12.17
While “progressives” continue to push for the eradication of public recognition of and respect for sexual differentiation in restrooms and locker rooms, they also studiously avoid answering essential and relevant questions. Here are the questions conservatives should ask and ask and ask. And they should demand answers from foolish school board members who sexually integrate private spaces.
Do 66,000 Pediatricians Really Support the AAP’s “Trans”-Affirmative Policy?
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.05.17
I've read umpteen times that the 66,000-member American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports the use of opposite-sex restrooms and locker rooms in schools by gender-dysphoric students. Wowzer! 66,000? That’s a lot of pediatricians. A few weeks ago I got to ruminating on that mind-boggling claim. It seemed implausible that all 66,000 pediatricians could believe something so radical. So, I set off on a quest to dig into this claim, and what I learned is surprising.
Abortionist Works on Bicep Strength to Extract Those Darn Baby Heads
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.30.17
The Center for Medical Progress has released a disturbing new video in which David Daleiden interviews abortionist/obstetrician Dr. DeShawn Taylor who used to kill humans in the womb for Planned Parenthood but started her own abattoir in Arizona in 2013. Taylor is also a member of NARAL Pro-Choice Arizona and the National Abortion Federation Society of Family Planning.
Liberals Shame and Bully Conservative Kids
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.29.17
One of the central tactics used by liberals to impose coercively an incoherent and science-denying “trans” ideology on, well, everyone, is to hurl epithets at dissenters. And if that means adults hurling epithets in the direction of children, so be it. Leftists can’t have children running around our streets even thinking the emperor has no clothes. And they certainly can’t have girls refusing to share restrooms with the emperor.
#FreeSpeechBus Vandalized in New York City
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.24.17
Three conservative organizations are sponsoring the "Free Speech Bus" on which are written these words:

#FreeSpeechBus

It's biology:
Boys are boys...and always will be.
Girls are girls...and always will be.
You can't change sex. Respect all.
A True Story About the Southern Poverty Law Center
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.23.17
A refreshing and much-needed take-down of the ethically impoverished Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its avaricious founder Morris Dees inspired me to recount IFI’s true story about our interaction with the blackguards who maintain the SPLC’s “hate groups” list.
The Barbarism of Feminism
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.20.17
Just when you think you’ve seen the depths of the cultural rebellion against God, it gets worse. The Catholic media outlet Crux reported on the blasphemous and ghoulish event that took place in Argentina on the increasingly infamous International Women’s Day, held this year on March 8.
Pesky Progressive Change Agents at Lake Forest High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.17.17
Close on the heels of the “progressive” boondoggle at New Trier High School, another affluent North Shore high school has its own boondoggle in the offing. Though smaller in scope (thus far) and far less public than all-school dogma day at New Trier, the contempt for diverse views, the brazenness of the attempt at censorship, and the presumptuousness of the staff members involved are no less remarkable.
Liberal Mom Objects to Man in Disneyland’s Women’s Restroom
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.14.17
Leftists smugly ask what they perceive to be THE "gotcha" question about trannies in restrooms: "So, are we going to have genital police?" To those smugsters, I ask, "How will you determine whether the burly, bearded, bulging-biceped person in the women's restroom or locker room is a member of the "trans" cult or a predator pretending to be a member of the "trans" cult?”
Scary Mommy and Selfish Daddy
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.11.17
The parenting blogger "Scary Mommy" and her husband—who have three young children—are divorcing. The proximate cause of their divorce is his homoerotic desire. The ultimate cause is rebellion against God. Scary Mommy, Jill Smokler, and her husband Jeff have been married for 17 years. In a recent interview Jeff describes his love for Jill...
Warning to Parents: The Day of Silence is Almost Here
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.10.17
In just six weeks, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) will again attempt to ram their sexuality ideology down the throats and into the hearts and minds of other people’s children via the hijacking of government schools for the political protest called the Day of Silence.
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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