Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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04.29.13
As most of the nation now knows, NBA player Jason Collins recently announced in a splashy Sports Illustrated article that he is homosexual, an announcement characterized by White House Spokesman Jay Carney as courageous.
After President Barack Obama had concluded...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.25.13
If you want to see where the deceitful effort of homosexual activists to exploit bullying-prevention for their own selfish and pernicious goals goes next, look at what recently happened in a New York middle school.
School administrators colluding with college...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.24.13
All Illinoisans should be troubled that our lawmakers vote for bills without demanding any evidence proving that the bills will solve the problems that the bills’ sponsors cite as the reasons the bills are needed.
Case in point: last week’s...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.17.13
This Friday, April 19, 2013 is the National Day of Silence which is sponsored by the homosexuality-affirming advocacy group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN’s raison dêtre is to transform the moral and political views of our...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.13.13
The foolish and false rationalizations State Representative Ed Sullivan (R-Mundelein) is providing to his constituents for his betrayal — I mean “evolution” — on marriage bear closer examination.
Here are the relevant portions of his letter:
After personal reflection and...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.12.13
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is reporting that Kathleen Betts, a constituent in State Representative Tom Morrison’s legislative district, is troubled that Illinois Representative Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) dared to suggest that the legalization of same-sex “marriage” may lead to the...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.09.13
Our relentless “progressive” lawmakers hell-bent on the early sexualization of children and the exploitation of public schools to normalize homosexuality have re-introduced the comprehensive sex ed bill (HB 2675), which if passed will foist on all schools the kind of...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.08.13
The Left, energized by feckless Republicans wheedling conservatives to set aside those pesky social issues, is poised to make a run at marriage again this week in Springfield. It’s time to retrieve our creaky spines from storage and return them...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.06.13
Don’t tell me the sexual predilections of our lawmakers are irrelevant. Lesbian activist and State Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago), perfervid promoter of all things homosexual, will be introducing a homosexuality-affirming Day of Silence resolution next week. Rep. Cassidy in cahoots...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.04.13
The week before the Illinois Senate was scheduled to vote on a bill to legalize same-sex “marriage,” student members of the Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) at Deerfield High School sent this email to every staff and faculty member:
Dear...
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Laurie Higgins
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04.02.13
In addition to cowardice, one of the reasons that conservatives fail to oppose the myriad ways “progressives” exploit public schools to transform other people’s children into their social and political image is that we dismiss each new effort of theirs...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.26.13
The mainstream media, including it seems virtually every political pundit on the Left and the Right, are dancing a jig over the “inevitability” of the widespread cultural embrace of a queer (pun intended) revision of marriage. These pundits, who jigged...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.21.13
President Barack Obama just announced that Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, is his pick to be Secretary of Labor. One year ago, I wrote about the White...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.20.13
Society thinks teens are especially vulnerable to peer pressure, peer approval, and the need to conform. We smile at them paternalistically and pat ourselves on the back that we adults are courageous non-conformists, able to leap tall cultural hurdles in...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.17.13
I hope anyone who listens to Sunday morning news program pundits does so with a critical ear.
As almost everyone knows, late last week U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced that he now favors the legalization of same-sex marriage. Portman...
