Articles by Laurie Higgins
Culture Warrior Peter LaBarbera Barred from Canada
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.11.14
image_pdfimage_print*** UPDATE: The hearing has concluded in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Peter LaBarbera will be permitted to remain in Canada to speak at a pro-life/pro-family values conference. Praise God, and thank you to everyone who prayed about Pete’s situation and who...
The True Face of “Anti-Bullying”: Dan Savage
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.08.14
image_pdfimage_printAs the Illinois House of Representatives in Springfield stands poised to pass yet another homosexuality-affirming “anti-bullying” bill out of committee and as our public schools prepare for yet another homosexuality-affirming Day of Silence—all of which are sponsored by homosexual activists—it’s...
Mozilla CEO Forced Out: The “Resignation” Heard Round the World
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.04.14
image_pdfimage_printIt shouldn’t have taken the forced resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich for the Left to admit that homosexual activists and their water-carrying ideological servants have no interest in dialogue, diversity, or tolerance. Jack-booted homosexualists demanded that Eich, co-founder of...
State Representative Kelly Cassidy’s At It Again
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.04.14
image_pdfimage_printUGLY-HEAD-REARING ALERT Two years ago, yet another “anti-bullying” law (HB 5290) was defeated in the Illinois Senate. It has now been resurrected by one of Springfield’s most troubling homosexual activist lawmakers, State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) as HB 5707. Particular...
World Vision Needs Leadership Changes
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.01.14
image_pdfimage_printAlthough the tempest surrounding World Vision’s policy change and abrupt reversal of policy change on hiring men and women in homosexual unions recognized legally as “marriages” has died down, the trickier issue of trust restoration remains. For many theologically orthodox...
UPDATE:  World Vision Reverses Course
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.26.14
Just one day after announcing that World Vision U.S. would hire men and women in unions recognized by the government as homosexual “marriages,” it has reverted to its original policy that prohibits hiring those who engage in homosexual activity and affirm homosexual relationships.
World Vision’s Worldly Vision
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.26.14
image_pdfimage_printWorld Vision, a well-known, well-regarded, and well-funded Christian charity has decided to abandon its policy that prohibits the hiring of those who engage in homosexual activity. World Vision U.S. will now hire homosexuals as long as they are in a...
Fatuous “White Privilege Conference” This Week
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.25.14
image_pdfimage_printMany Americans find President Obama’s obsession with income inequality troubling. Many think the goal of equality of outcome as opposed to equality of opportunity is misguided and harmful. Many are concerned with his hyper-focus on race, class, gender, and the...
Hobby Lobby Case Goes to Supreme Court
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.25.14
image_pdfimage_printThis week the U.S. Supreme Court hears a critically important religious freedom case. The Court will determine whether Hobby Lobby must provide contraceptive coverage to its employees, which would entail violating the religious beliefs of the company’s owners on a...
Lesbian Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Counseling for Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.23.14
image_pdfimage_printLesbian state representative and activist for all things homosexual, Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) has introduced yet another terrible piece of legislation that ultimately redounds to the detriment of children. Rep. Cassidy has proposed “The Conversion Therapy Prohibition Act” (HB 5569), which...
Colorful Condom Dispensers in Chicago Public Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.20.14
image_pdfimage_printFor those who care about how our hard-earned taxes are spent, take a look-see at the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI) for Chicago Public Schools that is being paid for by a $20 million federal grant. Some of this money...
Why Expose Teacher Emails?
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.17.14
image_pdfimage_printThis weekend I published and responded to yet another email from homosexual public high school teacher Rich Robinson who has admitted to me multiple times that he believes public schools should be used to promote Leftist assumptions about homosexuality to...
Woe to Those Who Call Evil Good
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.15.14
image_pdfimage_printIf you want a clearer sense of whom we are paying to teach our children, read this. Friday, I wrote this  on IFI: In order to know whether an idea embodies love, one must first know if it’s true. The...
Prevaricating “Progressives”
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.14.14
image_pdfimage_printTruthiness:
the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true;
a quality characterizing a ‘truth’ that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively...
Ridicule Replaces Reason in Religious Liberty Debates
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.06.14
image_pdfimage_print“Swallowing half an hour before closing time that second dose of soma had raised
a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds”
(Aldous Huxley, Brave New World). I’ll give it a go once more for the...
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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