Articles by Laurie Higgins
Tumultuary Harry Reid Insults Whites, Women and Justice Thomas
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.11.14
Maybe there’s a silver lining to the cloud created by U.S. Senator Harry Reid’s tumult of confused and disordered thinking. Maybe he has just inadvertently made a case for his own political demise.
What a Pro-Abortion Atheist Woman Says about Hobby Lobby
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.11.14
image_pdfimage_printRead what Shikha Dalmia, the pro-abortion atheist senior analyst for the Reason Foundation (who also happens to be a woman), said about the left’s apoplectic response to the “Hobby Lobby” decision: The United States Supreme Court last week handed...
Homosexual Activists Reject Their Own Legislation: ENDA
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.09.14
image_pdfimage_printThose who have been literally and figuratively taking a vacation from our increasingly strident culture wars may be surprised to learn that homosexual activist organizations, including Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, and...
Admission from the Left about the Homosexuality=Race Analogy
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.09.14
image_pdfimage_printThe new website Barbwire carries many of my articles.  In my recent piece on “Independence Day Parades and Barbarism” I wrote, “Opposition to celebrations of homoerotic predispositions, activity, and relationships bears not even the remotest relation to racism because homosexuality...
Independence Day Parades and Barbarism
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.06.14
image_pdfimage_print“Barbarous: Primitive in culture and customs; uncivilized; coarse” It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Independence Day parade in Deerfield, Illinois included a nod to sexual deviance, but Wheaton, Illinois? A justifiably irate parent from Deerfield, a liberal community on the...
Hillary Clinton’s Preposterous Statements On Hobby Lobby Decision
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.03.14
image_pdfimage_printOn Monday at the Aspen Institute’s “Aspen Ideas Festival,” Hillary Clinton offered some ideas that could have floated right out of the pot-clouded mind of a Colorado stoner. She discussed the recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision which held that the...
Hobby Lobby David vs. Empowered Women Goliaths
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.02.14
image_pdfimage_printFollowing the recent Supreme Court decision in favor of the religious liberty of the owners of Hobby Lobby, there’s been a lot of handwringing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth over a mythical war on women that warrants a closer look....
Rainbow-Hued Is the New Black
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.26.14
image_pdfimage_printI was recently asked this question: “Do you believe that disapproval of interracial relationships is indicative of hatred or bigotry? Interracial relationships like homosexual relationships are freely chosen.” What my interlocutor was really asking is, “Isn’t disapproval of homosexual relationships...
The Left’s Problem with Logic
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.24.14
image_pdfimage_printThe Left has either a problematic inability to think analogically and logically or a Machiavellian willingness to pretend they don’t. When I compared the rationalizations that religious leaders offered for their refusal to stand against the Nazi regime to the...
Are All Young People as Ignorant as the Mainstream Press Suggests
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.23.14
image_pdfimage_printIt serves the strategic purposes of the Left to lead the public to believe that there exists no one under 40 who believes marriage is inherently sexually complementary and who believes that volitional homosexual activity is always immoral. Recognizing the...
Gender-Confusion and Revolution
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.19.14
image_pdfimage_printThe National Post in Canada is reporting on a recent controversial school board decision in Vancouver to accommodate the desires of gender-confused students and their parents. This accommodation includes allowing students to use the “‘sex-neutral third-person'” pronouns of “xe, xem,...
Obama’s Newest Executive Order
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.17.14
image_pdfimage_printOn Monday, President Barack Obama’s lackeys started spreading the word that he would be signing yet another executive order.  This order will prohibit any businesses with over $10,000 in federal contracts from making distinctions in hiring based on the freely...
Damon Linker, Marriage, and Commendable Arguments
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.12.14
image_pdfimage_printPolitical writer Damon Linker posted an article recently on the future of same-sex “marriage.” He offered a grudging mini-compliment to the new website Discussing Marriage that addresses the marriage debate thoughtfully, civilly, and in Linker’s view, unpersuasively. Linker believes that...
Big Brother Sticks It to Colorado Cake-Baker
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.11.14
image_pdfimage_printColorado baker Jack Phillips who because of his faith chose not to bake a cake for the civil union of two men has been commanded by Big Brother (i.e., Colorado Civil Rights Commission) to participate in such unholy celebrations or...
“Cool-Shaming” and Church Schism
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.10.14
“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ” Galatians 1:10
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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