Articles by Laurie Higgins
Disturbing Video Shows Risk to Girls and Women Posed by Co-Ed Restrooms and Locker Rooms
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.13.16
image_pdfimage_printThere are multiple reasons to oppose policies and laws that permit people to use opposite-sex restrooms, dressing rooms, and locker rooms, including the risk posed to young girls and women. What’s sickeningly ironic is that “progressives” argue that since many...
Parents, Teachers, and Administrators: What to Do on Day of Silence
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.08.16
image_pdfimage_printThe annual, well-organized, and nearly ubiquitous pro-homosexual/pro-gender-confusion political event called the Day of Silence (DOS) invades our public schools on Friday, April 12, 2019. The Day of Silence is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) whose...
Gender Dysphoria Madness: 21st Century Superstition Run Amok
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.24.16
On Monday, the Chicago Tribune ran a guest essay written by Tucker Fitzgerald, the deceived father of a six-year-old gender-dysphoric boy who is being permitted to pretend he’s objectively female. This boy is permitted to wear dresses and use girl's restrooms. Fitzgerald wants his son to be able to continue this restroom practice, foolishly writing, “[W]hen confronted with trusting her [sic] heart and mind, or trusting her [sic] genitals, I chose her [sic] heart and mind.” What “heart and mind” refers to are feelings and thoughts, desires and ideas.
Obama Refuses to Attend Justice Scalia’s Funeral
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.19.16
image_pdfimage_print“All of life is partisan.” ~ Saul Alinsky In the 24 hours since Josh Earnest announced that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle would not attend the funeral of renowned U.S. Supreme Court Justice, much virtual ink has been...
Boxer Manny Pacquiao and Homosexuals Err
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.16.16
image_pdfimage_printBoxer Manny Pacquiao has rightly apologized to “LGBTQP” activists for saying, “Do you see animals mating with the same sex? Animals are better because they can distinguish male from female. If men mate with men and women mate with women,...
Please Respond to ACLU Poll
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.12.16
image_pdfimage_printThe American Civil Litigation Lawlessness Licentiousness Liberties Union (ACLU) wants to know if gender-dysphoric persons should be able to change the “gender marker on their birth certificates without proof of transition-related surgery.” Take ACTION:  Please tell them by taking this...
Surprise, Parents! Co-Ed Restroom in North Shore High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.10.16
image_pdfimage_printA couple of months ago, Deerfield High School (DHS) in Deerfield, Illinois quietly changed a multi-stall girls restroom to a co-ed restroom. Worse still the administration has not notified either parents or students. Rumors are circulating that the administration chose...
The Left is Pushing Hard Against Privacy Bills
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.04.16
image_pdfimage_printThe Leftist effort to sever objective immutable sex differences from both meaning and cultural recognition and to promote the fiction that one’s sex can change marches on. Within hours of the filing of the Pupil Physical Privacy Act (HB 4474)...
Courageous Lawmakers Fight for Student Privacy
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.28.16
image_pdfimage_printState Representative Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) introduced the bi-partisan Pupil Physical Privacy Act (HB 4474), which if passed would require the following: [A] school board to designate each pupil restroom, changing room, or overnight facility accessible by multiple pupils simultaneously, whether...
Babies’ Lives Matter: Center for Medical Progress Ironies
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.26.16
image_pdfimage_printPro-life activist David Daleiden and an associate from the Center for Medical Progress, whose undercover exposés of Planned Parenthood abortionists’ cavalier discussions of the careful crushing and distribution of human body parts created a furor last summer, have been indicted....
Pastor David Jones on Homosexuality and Marriage
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.22.16
image_pdfimage_printThere has been a sustained assault on truth with regard to sexuality for the last 55 years. For the last 45 years that assault has included successful efforts to normalize homosexuality and gender dysphoria, efforts that have intensified over the...
Wheaton College Matters
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.13.16
image_pdfimage_printRenowned Evangelical flagship Wheaton College has been embroiled in a controversy generated by the Facebook statement from associate professor of political science Larycia Hawkins that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. She made this statement when she announced that...
What Does It Mean to Say Marriage Is Left to the States?
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.07.16
image_pdfimage_printThere are a number of issues that divide and/or confuse conservatives, including the claim that marriage should be left to the states. Some conservatives argue that whether homosexual unions should be legally recognized as marriages is a matter left to...
Watch Your Language–or Else
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.04.16
image_pdfimage_printSurprise, surprise, over the holidays, the anti-cultural coal mine emitted more noxious fumes. Unfortunately, people of faith continue to ignore the canary’s corpse. Just before Christmas, New York City’s Commission on Human Rights released stunning speech code requirements regarding gender...
FDA Lifts Ban on Blood Donations from Men Who Have Sex With Men
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.21.15
image_pdfimage_printAfter years of lobbying by homosexual activists, the FDA has lifted its lifetime ban on “men who have sex with men” (MSM)—which is the Centers for Disease Control designation—from donating blood. Homosexual activists view the ban as unjustly discriminatory, a...
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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