Articles by Laurie Higgins
Women vs. “Transwomen”: Cultural Death Match
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.22.16
image_pdfimage_print“Sex-rejector”: Human who rejects his or her objective,
immutable biological sex “Provert”: One who affirms and promotes perversity as good Tacoma “trans” sideshow Get your popcorn, pick a seat, and watch the circus sideshow that just took place in Tacoma,...
Government to Censor Omar Mateen’s Pledge of Allegiance to ISIS
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.20.16
image_pdfimage_print*UPDATE* This post has been updated to reflect the Department of Justice’s reversal of  position on redacting the transcript of Orlando club shooter Omar Mateen’s phone calls with law enforcement. Four hours after the release of a partial transcript of ...
Co-ed Restrooms, Showers & Bathhouses Coming to Chicago
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.20.16
image_pdfimage_printOn Wednesday May 18, Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced an amendment to a Chicago human rights ordinance that if passed would make it even easier for men to use women’s restrooms and other facilities in which private activities take place. On...
CUNY Math Professor Donates Sperm in Target Bathrooms
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.16.16
A recent New York Post story illuminates the tragic consequences of the sexual revolution that separated sex from procreation, sex from marriage, and marriage from children. Children are intentionally and cavalierly separated from their biological parents.
Orlando’s Night of Horror
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.13.16
image_pdfimage_printTragedy struck again in the United States at the hands of a young man whose mind was poisoned by pernicious ideas and perhaps darkened by mental illness, this time at a well-known homosexual night club in Orlando, Florida. There are...
Social Scientists Discover Conservatives Aren’t Psycho
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.13.16
image_pdfimage_printPerhaps some remember the plethora of news stories a few years ago touting a 2012 research paper that purported to show that authoritarian personality types tend to be politically conservative. In a remarkable turn of events the researchers have admitted...
Alliance to Censor Speech on the Internet
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.09.16
image_pdfimage_printA National Review article warns of a troubling new collaboration between the European Union (EU)and social media sites including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft to police and censor the Internet. In a document with Orwellian overtones titled “Code of ...
Congress Debates Mandatory Selective Service Registration for Women
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.08.16
image_pdfimage_printSome may remember the ecstatic press accounts of the first two women, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, to make it through the grueling Army Ranger School. Well, here’s what former Marine Jude Eden shares in an article...
Obama Dishonors National Park Service
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.06.16
image_pdfimage_printSummer is the season during which countless parents take their children to visit our magnificent national parks. And this is a special year for our National Park Service in that August 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the day...
Incoherent Leftists, Abortion, and SB 1564
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.04.16
image_pdfimage_printLeftists in our leftist-controlled state are seeking to amend the “Health Care Right of Conscience” law so as to deny the right of conscience of medical professionals who oppose feticide, artificial contraception, and certain end-of-life protocols that intentionally and prematurely...
Experimenting on Children
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.26.16
image_pdfimage_printI have long said that the cultural tide will turn against sexual anarchy when its child victims grow up and tell their stories. In a culture that rejects reason and faith while concomitantly exalting subjective feelings, narratives carry immense power....
Progressive Illinois Lawmakers with Time on Their Hands (yikes)
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.18.16
image_pdfimage_printIllinoisans might think that state lawmakers elected to fix the mess they created would be drowning in real work with nary a moment to surface for air. Allow me to disabuse you of that quaint, naïve notion. Our “progressive” lawmakers...
Emperor Obama Mandates Co-Ed Restrooms–and More
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.13.16
image_pdfimage_print“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.” The Obama Administration in yet another demonstration of its infinite hubris and, yes, wickedness has sent a joint “Dear Colleague” letter from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the...
Media Bias at Chicago Magazine
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.12.16
image_pdfimage_printIn my eight years with IFI, I have had good experiences with journalists, including even leftist journalists. They have largely treated me graciously and chosen comments from our interviews that accurately represented IFI’s positions on issues. Last week, however, that...
Stunning Announcement from Attorney General Lynch on NC Law
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.09.16
image_pdfimage_printThere was good news from North Carolina Monday morning, when Governor Pat McCory announced North Carolina would be suing the Department of Justice (DOJ). That news was followed by bad news from the Department of Justice, announced in a stunning...
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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