Articles by Laurie Higgins
How Stevenson HS English Teachers Spend Public Money
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.01.09
image_pdfimage_printIFI readers with memories like steel traps may remember the names of Stevenson High School English teachers Melissa Mack and Bill Fritz. For those, like me, who have memories like steel sieves, Bill Fritz is the sponsor of Stevenson’s Gay...
Thanksgiving As Seen Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.25.09
image_pdfimage_printThere is a concerted effort on the part of proponents of “critical race theory” to erode respect for America through public education. Critical race theory, also known as “teaching for social justice” pervades departments of education all around the country....
Scandalous Intolerance in District 113
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.16.09
image_pdfimage_printIt was suggested to me that I file a Freedom of Information Act request with the school district for which I worked for a decade and which my four children attended. It was suggested that I request documents that mentioned...
District 204 Participates in Teaching Tolerance’s Mix It Up Day
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.13.09
image_pdfimage_printLast week, IFI was alerted to the fact that some School District 204 (Naperville, Aurora, Bolingbrook, & Plainfield) middle schools were participating in a diversity day last week. The person who contacted us thought that it would be a good...
Aggression in the Campaign to Destroy Marriage
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.09.09
image_pdfimage_printThose of us who have occasion to visit the blogs of homosexual activists are fully aware of the poisonous vitriol posted in the comments section against anyone who dares to challenge their increasingly aggressive dogma regarding the nature and morality...
Response to College of DuPage’s Dr. Collins
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.04.09
image_pdfimage_printHere is the form letter sent by the College of DuPage to those who expressed concern over Dr. Adelman‘s use of curriculum to advance her particular political biases. What is noticeably absent from this letter are any responses to the...
Boycott Scholastic Books
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.02.09
image_pdfimage_printThe famous — and soon to be infamous — Scholastic Books has decided to include the pro-homosexual book for 9-12 year-olds, Luv Ya Bunches, in its middle school book fairs. This troubling book is already in the Scholastic Book Club...
Naperville North Invites History Revisionist Howard Zinn — Again
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.29.09
image_pdfimage_printWhat is the difference between an educator and an ideologue? Perhaps a look at Naperville North High School’s teacher Kermit Eby will help answer that question. Kermit Eby, the Naperville North social studies teacher who last year invited unapologetic Weather...
College of DuPage Bio/Film Class: Education or Indoctrination?
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.28.09
image_pdfimage_printLast spring I was contacted by a remarkable student at the College of DuPage who could teach many adults a thing or two about courage and conviction. She was enrolled in an integrated biology and film class entitled “Honors Seminar:...
ACLU & Hope Abortion Clinic Target Illinois Parental-Notification Law
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.19.09
image_pdfimage_printThe ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dr. Allison Cowett and Hope Clinic for Women Ltd. to stop Illinois’ parental notification law from taking effect on Nov. 3, 2009. This law requires that minor girls under the age...
Pres. Obama’s Address to Gay Activists
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.13.09
image_pdfimage_printOn Saturday night, President Barack Obama delivered his sycophantic, pro-homosexual magnum opus to the nation’s largest homosexual and “transgender” lobbying organization: the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Obama promised attendees a veritable smorgasbord of legislation that will further their anarchical social...
IFI Update: Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings Warns that Schools Promote Heterosexuality
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.08.09
image_pdfimage_printhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=–tEY8gwrlQ In this video clip, “Safe Schools Czar” and pederast-protector Kevin Jennings frets over the “aggressive” promotion of heterosexuality that takes place in public schools through the teaching of Romeo and Juliet. Jennings makes the disingenuous claim that parents are...
IFI Update: Help Oust Kevin Jennings — “School Safety Czar”
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.30.09
image_pdfimage_printThe indefensible decision of Arne Duncan to appoint radical homosexual activist and founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Kevin Jennings to the position of Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools...
Chicago Tribune’s Julia Keller Endorses ALA’s Banned Books Week
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.28.09
image_pdfimage_printI was disappointed to read Julia Keller‘s article “Don’t read that: The secret lives of book banners” in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. Julia Keller is the erudite literary critic for the Trib whose reviews of books are delightful, fresh, and insightful...
Planned Parenthood’s Blood Money
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.21.09
image_pdfimage_printA short time ago, I wrote about the absence of righteous anger in the church about the use of public money to affirm homosexual behavior in our public schools. Tragically, that’s not the only cultural issue about which there is...
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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