Articles by Laurie Higgins
Chicago Tribune’s Eric Zorn on Same Sex Marriage
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.23.12
When it comes to the topic of homosexuality, I find most Chicago Tribune editors and columnists intellectually fraudulent in their efforts to normalize homosexuality. They rarely—if ever—respond to the best conservative arguments being made by the best conservative scholars. In addition, they rarely—if ever—respond to the most foundational assumptions, preferring instead to treat the assumptions embedded in terms like “sexual orientation” and discussions of equality, as if they’re proven facts.
The Truth About Harvey Milk
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.17.12
image_pdfimage_printIt shouldn’t surprise anyone that President Barack Obama invited the obscene, Christian-hating, homosexual, manboy Dan Savage to the White House. After all, President Obama’s  “Safe School Czar” was the homosexual founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN),...
Bullying Bill Exposed Part II
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.11.12
image_pdfimage_printFor those who despite all evidence to the contrary still believe that the bullying amendment that is pending in the Illinois Senate is centrally about stopping bullying, please read what one of Illinois’ chief homosexual activists organizations, Equality Illinois, recently...
This Momentary Marriage: Ian & Larissa’s Story
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.08.12
This inspiring and compelling short video reveals by contrast what a diminished (or perverse) view of marriage society has and is passing on to our children:
The New Bullying Amendment Exposed
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.05.12
image_pdfimage_printIFI readers, please, whether you have children in schools or not, take seriously the assault on the minds and consciences of students, and take action against the newly amended and completely unnecessary anti-bullying bill: HB 5290. IFI has requested that...
Dan Savage Responds
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.27.12
With Bill Clinton-esque rhetorical slipperiness, Dan Savage responds to my criticism of his anti-Christian hate speech by citing a video from which I did not quote and to which I did not provide a link in either of my two articles this week. About that video, he asks the following:
Dan Savage Elmhurst College Update
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.25.12
image_pdfimage_printWARNING: Not for younger readers My article on Dan Savage’s upcoming speaking engagement at Elmhurst College was posted and sent out late Monday afternoon. By early Tuesday morning, we discovered that several of Savage’s YouTube videos had been “removed by...
Homosexual Sex Columnist Dan Savage and Elmhurst College
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.23.12
Let's hope that audience members at the Dan Savage speaking engagement this coming Sunday, April 29, 2012 at Elmhurst College demonstrate the good sense and courage that several high school students recently demonstrated. Dan Savage, the vulgar, vitriol-spewing, homosexual sex columnist was for some bizarre reason invited to be the Friday keynote speaker at a national convention for high school journalism students held in Seattle, Washington last week.
Higgins Responds to Angry Day of Silence Email
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.19.12
image_pdfimage_printOn Wednesday morning, IFI received an email from a gentleman in Stockton, California, who is angry at our national effort to encourage parents to keep their children home from school on the Day of Silence if their school permits students...
Everyone Should Do Something About Friday’s Day of Silence
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.16.12
image_pdfimage_printWhile many conservatives call for a forfeit — I mean, truce — on the social issues, the other side gleefully forges ahead using our money to indoctrinate our kids in public schools. Conservatives used to be asleep at the wheel,...
Higgins Responds to State Rep. Karen May on Life
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.03.12
image_pdfimage_printI sent an email to my State Representative Karen May (D-Highwood) urging her to vote for the Ultrasound Opportunity Act (HB 4085), which if passed would require that a woman seeking an abortion be offered an opportunity to view an...
New “Bullying” Bill Passes Illinois House
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.29.12
image_pdfimage_printHow did they vote? IFI strongly opposes the bill proposed by lesbian activist State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago).  Sixty votes were needed to pass this bill in the Illinois House, and it passed by a vote of 61-49-2. It will...
Higgins Responds to H8SUX Creator
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.20.12
image_pdfimage_printLast week, IFI published a press release that was sent to us by Luke Montgomery announcing yet another campaign to use public schools to promote acceptance of homosexuality. The campaign is the creation of his organization, H8SUX, which previously exploited...
New Campaign by Activists to Normalize Homosexuality in Public Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.16.12
image_pdfimage_printPerhaps some remember the loathsome and vulgar campaign that has young children using the F-word in a video series to promote affirmation of homosexuality. Well, they have a new campaign and the creator, Luke Montgomery, sent IFI an email about...
Consequences of the Homosexual Political Agenda
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.14.12
image_pdfimage_printA homosexual Marine kisses another man in front of children who were there to welcome home their mothers and fathers. That should offend and anger every decent person. And still the church for the most part does nothing to help...
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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