Articles by Laurie Higgins
Obama Proclaims June LGBT Pride Month
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.02.10
image_pdfimage_printOnce again, Barack Obama has affirmed his commitment to radical, subversive change; his sycophancy to the homosexual lobby; and, implicitly, his embrace of heresy. He has already signed into law the dangerously flawed “Hate Crimes” bill, declared his intent to...
Chicago Tribune’s Rex Huppke Gaga for Homosexuality
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.24.10
image_pdfimage_printRex Huppke, who purports to be a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, but is, in reality, a mouthpiece for homosexual activism, has written yet another propaganda piece about homosexuality. Huppke wrote an article — not an opinion piece — but...
Political Activism Trumps H.S. Basketball Trip
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.12.10
image_pdfimage_printAnother boneheaded and politically motivated decision by District 113 — the district for which I worked for a decade — has landed the Deerfield and Highland Parkcommunities in the news — yet again. It seems that ever since George Fornero...
Chicago Tribune’s Eric Zorn on Canceled Prom
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.04.10
image_pdfimage_printChicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn asserts that the “stench of history” lingers in the air following the cancellation of a high school prom in Mississippi. It isn’t the “stench of history” but rather the stench of Zorn’s ignorance that hangs...
Chicago Tribune’s Eric Zorn on Canceled Prom
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.04.10
image_pdfimage_printChicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn asserts that the “stench of history” lingers in the air following the cancellation of a high school prom in Mississippi. It isn’t the “stench of history” but rather the stench of Zorn’s ignorance that hangs...
An Emasculated Focus on the Family — Say It Ain’t So
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.27.10
image_pdfimage_printEditor’s Note: IFI requested comments or clarifications on the AOL article from Focus on the Family. They did not respond. There has been much speculation about why James Dobson left Focus on the Family (FOTF). The speculation is that he...
Regent University Professor Mark Yarhouse’s Defense of Sexual Identity Therapy
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.20.10
image_pdfimage_printSeveral weeks ago, I wrote about the Sexual Identity Therapy (SIT) Framework co-developed by Grove City College professor Warren Throckmorton and Regent University professor Mark Yarhouse. This week, I’m going to take a stab at unpacking Dr. Yarhouse’s defense of...
School Vouchers for Chicago Elementary Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.14.10
image_pdfimage_printRev. Senator James Meeks (D-Chicago) sponsored and passed the bi-partisan school vouchers legislation (SB 2494) that now moves to the Illinois House. This bill would enable 22,000 Chicago elementary students who attend the city’s 49 worst performing schools to attend...
University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone’s Easter Message
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.05.10
image_pdfimage_printAnother glorious Easter has come and gone, a day during which Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ with friends and family. Try as they might, Universityof Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone and the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune couldn’t...
Obama’s Controversial Recess Appointment to the EEOC: Lesbian Chai Feldblum
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.30.10
image_pdfimage_printGeorgetown University lesbian law professor Chai Feldblum believes that when same-sex is marriage is legalized, which she argues is both necessary and inevitable, conservative people of faith will lose religious rights. She is also one of the authors of the ...
Costly Violations of District 113 Board of Education Policy
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.25.10
image_pdfimage_printSome months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with School District 113, asking for any documents that mentioned my name. This is the district for which I worked for a decade and from which all four...
Stevenson High School Students’ Ironic Effort to Promote Tolerance
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.24.10
image_pdfimage_printA few weeks ago, it came to IFI’s attention via some obscene hate email that several false rumors about us had started at StevensonHigh Schoolin Lincolnshire, Illinois. The rumors were that IFI was attempting to persuade the Stevenson administration to...
SPLC Fritters Away Last Traces of Credibility
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.24.10
image_pdfimage_printThe Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-left organization famous for promoting a panoply of extreme liberal causes, has launched yet another politically motivated attack against a well-respected conservative organization. The SPLC has arbitrarily tagged as a hate group Americans...
Throckmorton’s “Nuanced” Position on Homosexuality
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.16.10
image_pdfimage_print“Nuance”–yet another manifestation of rhetoric serving the cause of sin. Where oh where is C.S. Lewis when we need him to poke holes in the fancy façade of sophistication that we sinners don to conceal our acquiescence to a fallen...
Teaching Social Justice at Wheaton College
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.11.10
image_pdfimage_printOn Feb. 23, 2010 Sandy Rios devoted an entire two-hour radio program to a discussion of Julie Roys’ investigation into Wheaton College’s Department of Education “Conceptual Framework” and its reliance on far-left scholars who promote critical pedagogy, or as it’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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