Articles by Laurie Higgins
Rutherford’s Feckless Effort to Silence Conservatives
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.13.12
image_pdfimage_printOnce again so-called “moderate” Republicans are doing everything they can to coerce platform Republicans who care about those pesky immoderate issues like marriage, family, protecting the lives of the unborn, religious liberty, speech rights, and parental rights. “Moderate” Republicans in...
New Anti-Bullying Bill in Springfield
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.12.12
image_pdfimage_printNot only did Illinois pass a terrible “anti-bullying” law two years ago, but now lesbian activist and appointed State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) has proposed an amendment that has the potential to make school “bullying” policies even more intrusive. Here...
School-Based “Health Clinics”
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.07.12
image_pdfimage_printDistrict 116 in Round Lake, Illinois is embroiled in a controversy over a proposal to put a “school-based health center” (formerly called school-based health clinics) in Round Lake High School. School-based health centers are a creation of the Left. The...
New “Hate Crimes” Bill in Springfield
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.02.12
image_pdfimage_printWhile media pundits and liberal activists feign “concern” about the prominence of “social issues” in the GOP primary race for president, liberal activists tirelessly work to advance their social agenda. Whether it is the mandate from Washington D.C. that requires...
Why Parents Should Keep Their Children Home from School on the Day of Silence
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.01.12
image_pdfimage_printOn Friday April, 12, 2019 the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is once again exploiting public schools to promote homosexuality and gender confusion as moral and normative through the political protest called the Day of Silence. A coalition...
How Liberals Are Destroying Public Education: More on Rolling Stone Magazine’s War on Minnesota School District
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.13.12
image_pdfimage_printLast week, I wrote about an article by Sabrina Rubin Erdely that appears in the Feb. 6, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. More digging into her story reveals additional problems with her account of teen suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin...
Rolling Stone Magazine’s War on Anoka-Hennepin School District
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.06.12
image_pdfimage_printFor the past couple of months, I have been working with a dedicated, courageous, and tireless community group from the Minneapolis suburbs: the Parents Action League (PAL). They live in the Anoka-Hennepin school district, which has been facing a relentless...
Komen Buckles to Pressure from the Far Left
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.03.12
image_pdfimage_print So, if Planned Parenthood receives the entirety of the $700,000 that the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure were donating to Planned Parenthood before they weren’t for a day, and Planned Parenthood retains the $650,000 in new donations, they...
Adoption Agency Severs Ties to Catholic Diocese
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.03.12
image_pdfimage_printShortly after the deceitfully titled “Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act” passed in Illinois, homosexuals began their unholy assault on adoption agencies. A Southern Illinois adoption agency, formerly called Catholic Social Services, that has been affiliated with the Catholic...
GLSEN’s Outrageous Elementary School Toolkit
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.19.12
image_pdfimage_printThe latest pedagogical assault on truth, decency, and parental rights by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was revealed on Jan. 18,2012 and should serve as the slap upside the head that conservatives need. GLSEN simultaneously released the...
National Sexuality Education Standards Revealed
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.18.12
image_pdfimage_printIn January 2012, a new plan to usurp local control and impose liberal assumptions about sexuality on our nation’s children was unveiled. It is titled “National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K-12,” and it’s a creation of the...
Cardinal George’s Troubling Apology
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.07.12
image_pdfimage_printWith all due respect to Cardinal Francis George, I think his apology is misguided and his reasoning troubling: During a recent TV interview, speaking about this year’s Gay Pride Parade, I used an analogy that is inflammatory. I am personally...
More on the Recent “Gay Pride” Parade Controversy
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.05.12
image_pdfimage_printI’m reluctant to beat a dead horse, but in light of a comment made by the pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and an editorial in the liberal National Catholic Reporter (NCR), a bit more needs to be...
Cardinal Francis George Comments on Homosexual Pride Parade
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.29.11
image_pdfimage_printOrganizers of Chicago’s annual celebration of sexual deviancy, oxymoronically named the Chicago “Gay Pride” Parade, decided to change the parade route and time for the 2012 parade. This change would have resulted in the disruption or cancellation of the 10:00...
The Truth About Kwanzaa
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.22.11
image_pdfimage_printKwanzaa, the holiday ostensibly celebrating black history and culture, runs from Dec. 26-Jan. 1. While this relatively new holiday is honored even in some of our public schools, the origin of Kwanzaa is rarely shared with students. If schools were...
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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