Articles by Laurie Higgins
More Disappointment From FOX News
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.14.15
image_pdfimage_printIt was widely reported two days ago that Bret Baier, thoughtful and winsome host of the FOX News program Special Report with Bret Baier, has canceled his commitment to speak at the annual conference of the Catholic organization Legatus, which ...
NY Times Columnist Wants to Confine Religious Liberty to Church Closet
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.13.15
image_pdfimage_printOpenly homosexual New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni has announced his generous support for the right of people of faith “to believe what they do and say what they wish—in their pews, homes and hearts.” (emphasis added). Wow, thanks,...
Liberals Seek to Ban TLC Show “My Husband’s Not Gay”
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.10.15
image_pdfimage_printThe political Left, usually fanatical defenders of tolerance, diversity, freedom of expression, and choice in all things sexual, is in high dudgeon about a one-hour TLC television special titled My Husband’s Not Gay scheduled to air Sunday night (1/11/2015). The...
Is Theologically Orthodox Christianity to Blame for Josh Alcorn’s Suicide?
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.06.15
image_pdfimage_printTragically, three days after Christmas, 17-year-old Joshua Alcorn committed suicide by stepping into the path of a tractor-trailer. Josh suffered from both gender dysphoria and depression. He left behind a suicide note that lays the blame for his pain on...
Atheist Ignorance on Holiday Billboards
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.19.14
image_pdfimage_print~Correction/Update: Although Neuqua Valley High School still lists Hemant Mehta on its Math Department faculty webpage, he no longer works there. Linked screenshot below* was taken today, Dec. 19, 2014.~ A new Chicago-area billboard campaign from the aggressively offensive Freedom...
“Transgender” Tyranny
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.11.14
image_pdfimage_printIn a recent essay for The Spectator, Brendan O’Neill argues that the political movement to legally recognize non-marital homoerotic relationships as marriages undermines freedom and liberty: [E]verywhere gay marriage has been introduced it has battered freedom, not boosted it. Debate...
IFI Familiar with Shoddy Journalism of Rolling Stone Writer Sabrina Erdely
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.06.14
image_pdfimage_printRolling Stone Magazine just issued a public apology for the shoddy journalism of writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely whose name may sound vaguely familiar to regular IFI readers. More on that momentarily. Rolling Stone has apologized for Erdely’s failure to adequately...
Responsi-D**n-Bility
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.03.14
image_pdfimage_printThe young black man in the video below, Frederick Wilson II, expresses views that are arguably far wiser and more helpful in the debate over justice and racial reconciliation than anything Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, or Jesse Jackson has said...
More Scandalous Sex Ed
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.24.14
Before the dust has settled on a school sex ed controversy in Chicago, another outrageous sexuality “education” scandal has erupted, this time in Oregon. School personnel and students as young as 11 years-old from 16 school districts were invited to the annual Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon.
Shocking Sex-Ed Material in 5th Grade
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.18.14
Parents of 5th grade students at Andrew Jackson Language Academy, a West Side Chicago Public School magnet school, were stunned and repelled by the binder of sex ed material that they were shown recently during an after-school presentation about the upcoming sex ed class.
Sixth Circuit Judges Stop the Insanity
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.13.14
image_pdfimage_printFinally, some common sense from appellate court judges.  In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that state laws in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman...
Internecine Battle for Conservative Votes
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.06.14
Residents of California’s 52nd Congressional District were just confronted with the choice between Democratic incumbent Scott Peters and homosexual “pro-choice” Republican challenger Carl DeMaio, whom the GOP establishment vigorously supported. Not only is DeMaio openly homosexual—which is no problem for House Speaker John Boehner who campaigned for him—but according to multiple accusations, DeMaio has a peculiar practice of engaging in semi-public self-pleasuring. According to Slate Magazine, a third man has recently come forward alleging sexually inappropriate conduct on the part of DeMaio:
Sibling-Marriage Equality: Say Yes to Incest
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.22.14
image_pdfimage_printA recent article in The Telegraph titled “Incest a ‘Fundamental Right’, a German Committee Says” was precipitated by the infamous case of sibling incest in Germany that resulted in four children. The couple had not been raised together, and after...
A Life Worth Living According to Ezekiel Emanuel
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.08.14
image_pdfimage_printEzekiel (Zeke) Emanuel, bioethicist and brother to Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, wrote an article for The Atlantic Monthly titled “Why I Hope to Die at 75” that is generating  a lot of, shall we say, discussion. Let’s clarify from the...
Obama Addresses Rape of Co-eds But Not Servicemen
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.30.14
image_pdfimage_printLet’s give President Barack Obama his due. Last week he announced his “It’s On Us” campaign to end sexual assault of women on college campuses. All decent people agree that the sexual assault of women is a cultural evil that...
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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