Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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01.20.14
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-New York) has arrogantly proclaimed that “extreme conservatives” have no place in New York. And who are these “extremists”? Those who Cuomo hopes will leave New York include those who believe that women do not have a...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.13.14
Dear Father Jenkins,
I work for the Illinois Family Institute on the board of which sits a Notre Dame alumnus. In addition, we have a number of Notre Dame alumni subscribers.
I want to thank you for your efforts to...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.09.14
Three female Notre Dame University students who desperately want contraceptive coverage for their extracurricular activities are intervening in Notre Dame’s challenge to Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate. According to their attorney, these three women claim they are “very much in need of...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.06.14
The cacophonous voices of homosexual activists and their ideological allies are getting louder as the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia approach. They’re protesting Russia’s new federal law pertaining to homosexuality. Surely, this law must be draconian, reasonable people think, to...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.01.14
Apparently, “sexual orientation” is not as set in stone as homosexual activists and their ideological allies would have us believe. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been married for nineteen years to a woman who self-identified as a...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.30.13
As 2013 comes to a close, I want to make a few observations on the pervasive assault on sexuality truths—observations which are relevant to those with and without children.
“Progressives” wax jubilant over the sexual revolution that continues unabated and...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.28.13
Duck Dynasty’s raggedy, curmudgeonly Phil Robertson has displayed a moral courage and boldness that should shame many (perhaps most) religious leaders in this country. And in so doing, he has won a huge victory for truth, religious liberty, and diversity....
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Laurie Higgins
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12.19.13
One of the stars of the popular A & E show Duck Dynasty, Phil Robertson, has been indefinitely suspended from the program. His crime was making some politically incorrect statements about homosexuality in a condescension-dripping interview with GQ magazine...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.03.13
In my recent article on the effects of same-sex “marriage,” I mentioned Alana Newman, a young woman who was the product of an anonymous sperm donation. She is the founder of the Anonymous Us Project, the goal of which is...
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Laurie Higgins
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11.21.13
Yesterday I wrote about the question Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn posed to me regarding the potential effects of legally recognizing same-sex unions as marriages. He asked for specific research on which to base “gloomy” predictions and asked what “animated”...
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Laurie Higgins
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11.20.13
In response to the passage of Illinois’ same-sex “marriage” law, Francis Cardinal George wrote a letter that appeared in church bulletins in which he said that “there will be consequences for the Church and society that will become clearer as...
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Laurie Higgins
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11.18.13
Last week, U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) confirmed my reasons for vehemently opposing his election. His obamaniacal act of hubris last week also reminded me of the emails I received chastising me for what some perceived as my wrongheaded, doctrinaire...
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Laurie Higgins
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11.13.13
Here is a poem by Pulitzer prize-winning, African American Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks that high school students would be well-served to study:
The Mother
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not...
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Laurie Higgins
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11.06.13
My random thoughts following the vote on marriage:
1.) Tuesday, cowardly and/or ignorant Illinois lawmakers in defiance of truth, history, logic, compassion, and in some cases, their own religious traditions voted to legally recognize non-marital unions as marriages. In so...
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Laurie Higgins
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11.04.13
Over the weekend, I was made aware of the Facebook comments of two of Illinois’ elected lawmakers in response to my article on the impending marriage redefinition vote in which I examined the appeals to emotion that are relentlessly exploited...
