Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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05.13.15
Professor Anthony Esolen is one of America’s cultural treasures. He writes about moral decline in America with insight, boldness, and eloquence—no timid, hesitant, evasive speech from Professor Esolen. Many people—though not nearly enough—know Professor Esolen through his writing for LifeSiteNews,...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.29.15
This is a collection of random thoughts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearings on whether to deconstruct marriage and refashion it in accordance with the desires of homosexuals.
Some of my thoughts are in response to comments made by U.S....
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Laurie Higgins
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04.27.15
The Left believes minors should be able to access medical help in rejecting their unchosen, unwanted physical embodiment but then wants to prohibit minors from accessing medical help in rejecting their unchosen, unwanted same-sex attraction. So, how do “LGBTQIAAP” activists...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.23.15
Recently at Horace Mitchell Primary School, a K-3 school in Kittery Pointe, Maine, parents were sent a letter explaining that school guidance counselor Dana Rickerich had read a picture book to 20 of the 22 classes about a boy (yes,...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.10.15
State Representative Scott Drury (D-Highwood) wrote this to a constituent who opposes HB 4013*, the bill that would remove all restrictions on taxpayer-funded abortions:
Thank you for your email. As a devoted husband and father of two children, I have...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.09.15
Since Christians are sending their children to government schools—often out of necessity—where they will be taught that soul-destroying homoerotic activity is good and that disapproval of it is hateful, parents should be aware of what many liberal teachers think of...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.08.15
In a recent article about the upcoming political protest in public schools sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), I referred to the “sickening sweetness” of increasing numbers of Christians. By that expression, I am not suggesting...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.02.15
In a shocking turn of events, cowardly, ignorant Republican lawmakers in Indiana have proposed an amendment that turns the Religious Freedom Restoration Act upside down. The Associated Press is reporting that Indiana Republican lickspittles are offering the Free Exercise Clause...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.31.15
Intellectual frustration is boiling over—mine, that is.
Opponents of RFRA laws would like these laws to protect religious liberty as long as religious liberty protections never trump the wishes of those who affirm a homosexual identity. Homosexual activists seek to...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.30.15
It’s Hoosier David versus rainbow-clad Goliath.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence recently signed into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in a small, humble ceremony—unlike the prideful, garish, gay ceremony that former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn staged for the signing...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.26.15
IFI is doing something different for our annual banquet next September 18, 2015.
In the spirit of ecumenism, we have invited two distinguished scholars/culture warriors to speak: one Catholic and one Protestant. We will have the honor and privilege of...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.24.15
Homosexuals and their ideological allies are fond of promoting a pernicious comparison of race, which has no inherent features relative to desire or behavior, to homosexuality, which is constituted by subjective desire and immoral volitional acts.
Far better analogies for...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.23.15
The halcyon days for Christians in America are over. A time of persecution and stigmatization of Christians is just over the horizon. It’s time for Christians to wipe the gold dust from their eyes left over from over two hundred...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.18.15
Last month, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone published a statement on Catholic teaching derived from the Catechism of the Catholic Church that he intends to add to the faculty and staff handbook that governs four Catholic high schools in...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.17.15
State Representative Kelly Burke (D-Evergreen Park) has reintroduced the Parentage Act of 2015 (now HB 1531). The bill’s sponsors have caved to the anti-family dictates of homosexuals who demanded troubling language be restored to a prior incarnation of the bill....
