Articles by Laurie Higgins
Adult Consensual Incest is A’Comin’
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.16.10
image_pdfimage_printPerhaps we can be forgiven for remaining blithely ignorant of just how depraved societies that abandon true faith can become. Until today, I did not know that incest between consenting adults is legal in China, France, Israel, the Ivory Coast,...
Whole: A New Documentary on a Troubling Disorder
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.15.10
image_pdfimage_printThe new documentary Whole, which recently premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, explores the troubling topic of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). This disorder, which I have mentioned in several articles, used to be called apotemnophilia. Those who suffer...
Chicago Tribune’s Propagandist for Homosexuality: Rex Huppke
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.08.10
image_pdfimage_printI can’t say I was surprised by Rex Huppke’s Dec. 1, 2010 front-page Chicago Tribune story on the passage of the “civil union” bill, but I was certainly disappointed by its lack of objectivity. His sources were exclusively pro-homosexual, and...
Dan Savage Promotes Anti-Christian Evil
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.22.10
image_pdfimage_printNo matter what one thinks of the homosexuality-affirming “It Gets Better” project, do we really want the president of the United States to be associated with radical sex columnist Dan Savage, the creator of this campaign? “It Gets Better” is...
Economics Teacher Expels Student for Expressing Opinion
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.22.10
image_pdfimage_printBy now many have read about the incident that took place in a suburban Detroit high school. Teacher Jay McDowell expelled a student from his economics class because the student said that due to his Catholic faith, he does not...
Gustavus Adolphus College Abandons Lutheran Heritage
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.26.10
image_pdfimage_printFor all parents who want their children to attend a Christian college, take note of this follow-up to my article two weeks ago about a small Lutheran college in Minnesota. Pay attention because what is taking place at Gustavus Adolphus...
ALA’s Ironic “Banned Books Week”
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.19.10
image_pdfimage_printSeveral weeks ago, libraries across the country sanctimoniously participated in the ironic “educational” campaign: Banned Books Week, which should be called Disinformation Week. The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association (ALA), which sponsors Banned Books Week, has...
Moment of Silence Law Upheld!
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.15.10
image_pdfimage_printOn Friday, October 15, 2010, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the mandatory Illinois”Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act” passes constitutional muster. Circuit Court Judges Kenneth F. Ripple and Daniel A. Manion overturned U.S. District Judge Robert W....
Gustavus Adolphus College Promotes Perversion to Freshmen
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.11.10
image_pdfimage_printEditor’s Note: Reader Discretion Is Advised Two videos of a freshmen orientation presentation at Gustavus Adolphus College, a small Lutheran College in St. Peter, Minnesota, have come to light that expose the repugnant ideas and images that college students at...
Teen Suicide and Homosexuality
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.07.10
image_pdfimage_printThe past year has seen the tragic suicides of five young men who identified as homosexual or who were taunted with homosexual epithets. I shouldn’t need to say this, but no one should be harassed or bullied — ever. Children...
They’re Here, They’re “Queer” and They Demand Cupcakes
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.05.10
image_pdfimage_printPerhaps you’ve already heard about the most recent assault on citizens’ freedom of conscience, which happened right here in the Midwest. The owners of the Just Cookies bakery in Indianapolis, David and Lily Stockton, politely declined to fill a special...
Governor Quinn in the Minority in Rejecting Title V Abstinence Education Funds
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.28.10
image_pdfimage_printThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently thanked Governor Patrick Quinn (D) for rejecting Title V federal funds for abstinence education and praised him for turning instead to the new federal program for funding comprehensive sex ed called the Personal...
Astonishing Data from the Center for Disease Control
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.24.10
image_pdfimage_printThe Center for Disease Control (CDC) just released the information below, which must be disseminated in public high schools. In light of the astonishing HIV infection rates among men who have sex with men, all public high schools have an...
Robert Patterson Argues that Fiscal Conservatism is Not Enough
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.23.10
image_pdfimage_printHere’s an excerpt from an excellent article on the intensifying public debate about whether conservatives should participate in a truce on the “social issues”(aka “essential moral issues”). It would be more accurate to describe this as de facto demand that...
Lesbian U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin Sponsors More Bad Legislation
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.22.10
image_pdfimage_printBig government sees no limit to its reach. A behemoth with slimy tentacles reaching into every crevice of American life, it is now trying to squirm into the sexual lives of American citizens, including our teens. Lesbian activist and U.S....
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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