Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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03.04.10
The Day of Silence is fast approaching. For the uninitiated, the Day of Silence (DOS) is yet another effort by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to use public education to transform the views of our nation’s children...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.03.10
Many people who live in more conservative communities, for example, in the Midwest and South or rural communities, have been complacent regarding the presence of homosexuality-affirming resources and activities in their schools. They naively assume that their values and beliefs...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.17.10
The issue of homosexuals serving openly in the military is so complex that writing about it seems overwhelming.
First, there is the problem of reconciling both Article 125 of the Military Code of Justice and U.S. Code – Section 654...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.17.10
The Day of Silence is fast approaching. For the uninitiated, the Day of Silence (DOS) is yet another effort by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to use public education to transform the views of our nation’s children...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.14.10
If the superficial, silly, ad hominem non-arguments that constitute the sum total of Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg‘s indictment of conservative positions on homosexuality were not so dangerous, they would be laughable.
In a rant in the Sunday Feb. 14 ...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.09.10
An article on abstinence-only programs appearing in the Feb. 2010 issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine reports that “Only about a third of sixth- and seventh-graders who completed an abstinence-focused program started having sex within the next two...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.05.10
For far too long, far too many people of faith who hold conservative views on abortion have defended the right to abort preborn babies who are the products of rape or incest. The logical and moral error that this position...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.26.10
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia‘s son Paul Scalia is an ordained Roman Catholic priest. Here is an excerpt from a blog post by Hadley Arkes, Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College, writing about one of Father Scalia’s homilies:
The...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.18.10
It is my hope that IFI subscribers will even read articles about schools other than their own. When I write about a problem in a particular school, I always address the problematic assumptions that underlie whatever particular issue I am...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.14.10
It was only a matter of time before homosexual activism infected elementary education here in Illinois. This cancerous activism appeared during a recent Institute Day at William Beye Elementary School in Oak Park during which Oak Park resident and lesbian,...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.10.10
Public education is rife with problems, but perhaps none quite as prevalent as pro-homosexual advocacy which infects schools from elementary through high schools, from small schools to large, and from poorly performing urban schools to affluent, prestigious suburban schools.
What...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.08.10
I apologize for the lurid title, but this is a lurid story.
Every divorced father, every non-custodial parent, and every decent, fair, compassionate person should both tremble and be outraged by the recent feckless court decision of activist Illinois judge, ...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.21.09
If you’re looking for a family holiday movie that extols pantheism and environmental alarmism while denouncing the genocidal, rapacious history of America, it sounds like Avatar just might fit the bill. The title of John Nolte’s review of Avatar for...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.11.09
Georgetown 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. This is the same Chai Feldblum who has been...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.07.09
As the Director of School Advocacy, I write primarily about current problems in public schools. The topics about which I write are generated primarily by concerns brought to my attention by parents of current public school children; staff or faculty...
