Articles by Laurie Higgins
Vote on Marriage Redefinition Coming Next Week?
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.01.13
Rumors are circulating that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) and homosexual activist, State Representative Greg Harris (D-Chicago) may call for a vote on the marriage redefinition bill (SB 10) next week. Because their ideological accomplices in the political and punditry spheres are promoting this effort with fervor and tenacity, it’s essential that Illinoisans understand the specious nature of the arguments that animate them.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act is BAAAAACK
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.31.13
image_pdfimage_printThe Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is poised to rear its ugly and dangerous head again in the U.S. Senate in the next few weeks. The controversial Democrat-sponsored bill (S. 815) currently has 55 co-sponsors, only two of whom are Republicans:...
Capitol Fax On Marriage and IFI
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.18.13
image_pdfimage_printThis past Thursday, the CapitolFax political website, liberal political pundit Rich Miller re-posted a recent IFI fundraising appeal, ridiculing it as “over the top” and highlighting the phrases he, Miller, views as particular over-the-toppish. After reading his post and the...
Lawmakers Must Explain Themselves–Using Logic
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.15.13
image_pdfimage_printLawmakers who support the legal recognition of same-sex unions as “marriages” should be embarrassed by the intellectual vacuity of the arguments they and homosexual activists use to defend this radical redefinition of marriage. And the sycophantic media, in the tank...
What Surrogacy Reveals About Homosexuality
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.11.13
image_pdfimage_printCritical and inconvenient truths about homosexuality, marriage, and children manage to leak out in unexpected places. If you’re not reading carefully, you may not even notice them. Here are several brief quotes from Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune article on “gestational surrogacy”...
Chicago Tribune Hosts Revealing Marriage Forum
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.03.13
image_pdfimage_printIn a stunning public admission during a debate on the future of marriage in Illinois, the chief sponsor of SB 10, the proposed bill to legalize same-sex “marriage,” homosexual State Representative Greg Harris (D-Chicago) acknowledged that the bill does not...
Anthony Esolen on the Moral Structure of Pedophilia
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.01.13
image_pdfimage_printPublic Discourse has just published a remarkable piece of eloquent, incisive, and bold truth-telling by the remarkable Dr. Anthony Esolen, Providence College English professor and Touchstone Magazine senior editor. Esolen makes the case that society has largely appropriated a revolutionary...
Former Stevenson HS Principal Hires Disgraced Teacher
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.25.13
image_pdfimage_printLast spring, Stevenson High School (SHS) in Lincolnshire, Illinois erupted in yet another public relations scandal when 41-year-old homosexual dean and former French teacher Paul Weil was forced to resign when it was discovered that he had sent “inappropriate text”...
Email Exchange About Marriage with Florida Attorney
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.18.13
image_pdfimage_printThe urgent battle to defend and preserve marriage in Illinois is heating up in Illinois and is being watched with feverish interest by homosexual activists and their ideological allies throughout the country (Click HERE to read what the powerful Washington...
“Progressive” Opposition to Private Schools Grows
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.10.13
image_pdfimage_printA recent essay by Allison Benedikt appearing in the online magazine Slate makes the startling claim that all parents have an ethical obligation to send their children to—hold on to your hats and socks—government schools. Well, that’s a summary of...
Government=Family According to Elementary School in Skokie
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.04.13
East Prairie School in Skokie, Illinois finds itself in the eye of a storm or at least a tempest in a tea pot. I would love to see more public schools caught in such tempests of their own making. Public school administrators tend to respond to only three things:
Concerns About Common Core (Part 2)
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.27.13
image_pdfimage_printYesterday in the Chicago Tribune, Bob Secter writing ostensibly in support of Common Core Standards (CCS) engaged in the very kind of hyperbolic mischaracterization of critics of CCS for which he condescendingly mocks them. He spends the first quarter of...
Concerns About Common Core (Part 1)
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.27.13
image_pdfimage_printMost Americans have heard the term Common Core Standards (CCS), but many have little idea what those standards are, who created them, or what is troubling about those standards, which are a significant step in the movement toward nationalizing public...
Teacher’s Arrogant Admissions (Part 5)
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.23.13
image_pdfimage_printAt long last we arrive at Part 5 of a lengthy email exchange between me and a public high school censor—I mean, “educator”—who arrogates to himself the right to decide which ontological and moral views regarding homosexuality are true and...
Teacher’s Arrogant Admissions (Part 4)
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.22.13
image_pdfimage_printThis is the fourth part of an email exchange between a public high school teacher and sponsor of the “gay-straight alliance” in a high school in Maine, and me. In this part, he makes clear what he presumptuously views as...
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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