Articles by Laurie Higgins
Sex “Educators” Push the Proverbial Envelope–Again
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.09.14
image_pdfimage_printClick here  (*WARNING: Repellent photo*) to see what was shown to eight-graders recently at Pine Valley Middle School in (where else) California. It was part of a “humorous” sex education presentation that included hilarious jokes about “women on top” and...
From Horrific Tragedy to America’s Got Talent
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.07.14
image_pdfimage_printTwenty years ago in a horrific accident on I-94, Pastor Scott Willis and his wife Janet lost their six youngest children in a fiery inferno. This accident exposed a scandalous case of corruption that sent former governor George Ryan to...
The Mainstream Media and Its Ignorance on Marriage
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.02.14
image_pdfimage_printHow do we know that Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn is foolish? Well, let’s take a look at Sunday’s column and count the ways: 1.) He believes that the same-sex marriage debate will “fade into history.”  2.) He believes that...
Obama Chooses Homosexuals over Veterans
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.30.14
image_pdfimage_printObama’s twisted priorities Although Obama campaigned on fixing the VA, he has made more efforts to pacify the desires of homosexuals than he has in providing for the needs of veterans. A 2007 campaign press release illuminates both Obama’s dishonesty...
Equal Rights Amendment: A War on Women
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.29.14
image_pdfimage_printThe hubris and dishonesty of “progressives” continue to astound. They proclaim through their sycophantic mouthpieces in the mainstream press that conservatives are waging war on women when in reality, it is “progressives” who pursue policies that hurt women and their...
The Resurrected ERA Must Be Defeated
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.20.14
image_pdfimage_printThanks to Illinois Senators Heather Steans (D-Chicago), Mattie Hunter (D-Chicago), David Koehler (D-Peoria), Iris Martinez (D-Chicago), and Pat McGuire (D-Joliet), the Equal Rights Amendments (SJRCA 75) is rearing its ugly, genderless head again. These lawmakers, at the urging of Governor...
The Days of Socially Acceptable Christianity Are Over
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.18.14
image_pdfimage_printLast week, Princeton University law professor Robert P. George delivered the following speech titled “Ashamed of the Gospel?” at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Every faithful follower of Christ—Catholic and Protestant—should read this speech. Pastors and priests should read it...
Michael Sam and Cultural Degradation
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.13.14
image_pdfimage_printFor the homosexuality-affirming movement to hold culture tightly in its foul grip, those for whom same-sex attraction and activity define “identity” must capture the hearts and minds of children who are our future. Hence the unholy clutching and scrabbling to...
Hagel, Lambert, and Piazza=Monday News Blues
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.12.14
image_pdfimage_printAfter a lovely Mother’s Day, I awoke to a dispiriting collection of news stories that point to the rapid degradation of truth and, therefore, the public weal. Here are just three: 1.)  Barack Obama’s Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, wants the...
The Sterilization of Abortion
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.09.14
image_pdfimage_printIf there can be anything related to abortion that can be called a gift, it is the repugnant video made by Emily Letts of her own abortion. Letts, a “patient advocate” at the Cherry Hill Women’s Center in New Jersey...
Throuples, Twincest, and Remembering
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.07.14
image_pdfimage_printRemember what the world has taught Remember the days when homosexual activists told the soothing lie that all they sought was tolerance—the freedom to be left alone to engage in homoerotic acts in private? Remember when they mocked conservatives into...
Coldplay’s Chris Martin on Marital Love
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.28.14
image_pdfimage_printColdplay front man Chris Martin says this on his “conscious uncoupling” (also known to mere mortals as divorce) from Gwyneth Paltrow: This was more a realization about trying to grow up basically… if you can’t open yourself up, you can’t ...
California Attorneys Seek to Bar Judges from Boy Scout Affiliation
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.23.14
image_pdfimage_printTransgressive sexuality trumps–well, everything Last week liberal Slate Magazine writer William Saletan made a semi-effective attempt at satire, proposing that all employees in corporate America who donated to Prop 8 in California six years ago be fired like Mozilla’s CEO...
Homosexual Pedophiles in Hollywood? shocking…
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.23.14
Confession: I’m not into superheroes—well, I’m not into comic book superheroes. Real superheroes, I love. As a result of my lack of interest in comic book superheroes, I have never seen an X-Men movie, nor even read a review of one—until today. What prompted me to read about the X-Men movies is a hair-raising lawsuit filed by 31-year-old Michael Egan who is accusing X-Men writer and director Bryan Singer of drugging and raping him when Egan was between the ages of 15-17 and openly homosexual Singer was 32.
Random Thoughts on the  Rapacious Rainbow Revolution
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.22.14
image_pdfimage_printRandom thoughts on the homoerotic cultural revolution: 1.)  I received an email last week from a Christian who was upset that I published the loathsome video of Dan Savage even though I provided ample warning that the content was offensive....
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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