Articles by Laurie Higgins
DOJ Joins ED to Redefine Sex and Rewrite Law
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.09.16
image_pdfimage_printThe federal government through its highly partisan Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to make law—again—by attacking North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill.” Last Wednesday, the DOJ sent a letter to NC governor Pat McCrory demanding that he rescind the law...
Federal Lawsuit Filed Against District 211 and DOE Over Student Privacy
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.07.16
image_pdfimage_printOn Wednesday afternoon, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit in federal court against School District 211 and the Department of Education (DOE) on behalf of 51 district families who rightly claim that the district...
Leftist NY City Mayor Wants to Put Christians Out of Business
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.06.16
image_pdfimage_printNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging New Yorkers not to eat at Chick-fil-A because owner Dan Cathy believes that homoerotic acts are not moral and has donated money to organizations that share that belief. Although Mr. Cathy...
Latest CPS Outrage Violates Rights of Students, Staff, and Faculty
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.04.16
image_pdfimage_printThe Chicago Public Schools (CPS) just issued guidelines that allow gender-dysphoric students and teachers to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the sex they wish they were rather than the sex they actually are. In public schools, staff...
Target, Krauthammer, Reality and Evil
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.26.16
image_pdfimage_printTarget recently announced its new restroom policy, which embraces the absurd notion that in order to be inclusive, sex differences cannot be acknowledged or respected. In light of Target’s sex-integrated, co-ed restroom policy, I called my local Target and had...
Homosexuality, Race and Identity
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.25.16
image_pdfimage_printHomosexual activists have long sought to transform cultural disapproval of homoeroticism into approval, and one way they pursued this goal was to co-opt the fight of blacks for racial equality. Hence, they pursued the inclusion of homosexuality (and now “gender...
Dr. Eric Walsh Fired for His Religious Beliefs
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.21.16
image_pdfimage_printWhile another case of religious discrimination rears its bigoted head, liberals with unseeing eyes and venomous tongues mock any suggestion that Christians are facing persecution. Worse still they virulently oppose the types of laws that would protect religious liberty—you know,...
“Progressives” and Religious Liberty
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.16.16
image_pdfimage_print“Progressives” who view the cultural embrace of deviant sexuality as good seek to eradicate the last cultural obstacle to its universal embrace: biblical truth. Since that’s not possible, they seek instead to eradicate religious liberty by incrementally narrowing the cultural...
Lake Forest Resident Finds Safety Concerns Inconceivable
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.13.16
image_pdfimage_printLake Forest, Illinois resident Dianne Casuto in a letter in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday criticized a previous commentary in which Elizabeth Edens expressed concern over the safety to women posed by female-impersonators being allowed in women’s restrooms. Cassuto wrote,...
Day of Silence Metastasizes
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.11.16
image_pdfimage_printThe upcoming National Day of Silence (DOS) On Friday, April 15, organized and promoted by the extreme leftist Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), urges students to refuse to speak for an entire school day including during class. The...
No-Stress Restrooms at New York College
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.06.16
image_pdfimage_printWell, now, that didn’t take long. Yesterday, I warned about the dystopian cultural landscape that the sexual subversives among us are pursuing with unholy fervor and at breakneck speed. They seek to end all public recognition and accommodation of sex...
The Left Seeks End of Sex-Segregation Everywhere
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.05.16
image_pdfimage_printA funny thing happened on the way to the following article getting published. After two pieces appeared in the Chicago Tribune mocking and maligning those who believe sex differences matter, I submitted an op-ed in which I express an opposing...
UPDATE:  Christian B&B Case Not Over
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.31.16
image_pdfimage_printInitial press reports suggested that the case against the Christian owner of the Timber Creek Bed and Breakfast in Paxton, Illinois, Jim Walder, was settled. The Illinois Human Rights Commission has clarified that administrative law judge Michael R. Robinson’s decision...
Illinois Lawmakers Seek to Make Falsified Birth Certificates Easier to Obtain
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.30.16
image_pdfimage_printState Representative Greg Harris (D-Chicago) and his leftist accomplices, endlessly involved in trying to subvert truth and reality, have introduced the Birth Certificate Sex Designation bill (HB 6073) to make it easier for men and women who wish...
Illinois Christian Businessman Fined $80k for His Faith — But There is More
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.29.16
image_pdfimage_printAnother Christian business-owner has been persecuted for his faith. Jim Walder, owner of an Illiois bed and breakfast, has been fined $80,000 by the Illinois “Human Rights” junta (also known as the Illinois Human Rights Commission) for refusing to rent...
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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