Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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09.14.09
H.R. 2262, “The Safe Schools Improvement Act,” was introduced in May, and in June it was referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. This bill would “amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to...
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Laurie Higgins
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09.11.09
There’s yet more troubling information about H.R. 2262, the proposed amendment to the Safe and Drug-FreeSchools and Communities Act. According to the pro-homosexual website Change.org, “H.R. 2262 would require schools that receive Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funding...
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Laurie Higgins
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09.07.09
I wrote an article last week about Challenge Day which took place from Aug. 31-Sept. 3 at O’Fallon Township High School in southern IL. The four-day event cost thousands of dollars with much of the funding evidently coming from the...
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Laurie Higgins
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09.03.09
How far the goals and activities of public education have moved since its inception can be seen in a look at Challenge Day–or more accurately Challenge Days–which are scheduled for Aug. 31-Sept. 3 at O’Fallon Township High School (OTHS) in...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.23.09
Yet another tragic, horrific, and utterly unjustifiable murder of homosexuals has taken place, this time in Tel Aviv, Israel at a youth center for homosexual teens. Saturday night, two were killed and thirteen wounded when a gunman opened fire in...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.20.09
District 204 parents really should spend some time perusing Neuqua Valley math teacher, Hemant Mehta‘s website to determine whether he is the kind of man with whom they want their children to spend a school year. He absolutely has a...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.17.09
Last week, I wrote an article forewarning IFI readers to avoid the “Bean” in Millennium Park on Saturday, August 15 at 1:00 p.m. because the “Great Nationwide Homosexual Kiss-In” was going to take place there. I never suggested banning the...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.12.09
Illinois Family Institute is issuing a warning to families: Do not take your children to Millennium Park in the vicinity of the “Bean” on Saturday, August 15 at 1:00 p.m. Homosexual activists have planned what they are calling “The Great...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.12.09
In the fall of 2008, I wrote two articles describing how absurdly imbalanced public high school book collections are on the topic of homosexuality. I mentioned in those two articles that DeerfieldHigh Schoolhad approximately 65 books that espouse liberal views...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.01.09
Dear Mr. Mehta,
You wrote, “The Illinois Family Institute’s Laurie Higgins is going after me (and my job) again.”
I have never in any context suggested that you should be fired or that you should resign. In fact, I don’t...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.30.09
Imagine if this Scenario Were Reversed: One might suppose that homosexual militant Wayne Besen would be the last fellow to question the idea that “gay” activism threatens religious freedom in America. At right, Besen is photographed harassing a Boston church...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.29.09
Anyone who dares to suggest that homosexual behavior is immoral, or that public schools have no business affirming homosexuality in or to children, or that the church has a positive obligation to oppose the use of public funds to affirm...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.14.09
Those of us who are troubled by both premarital sexual activity and by comprehensive sex education should not abide in a state of willful ignorance or complacency about the problem of how to educate our children about sexuality issues.
Far...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.08.09
On Thursday morning, June 25, three days before the Chicago”pride” parade, I called Nettelhorst Elementary School Principal Cindy Wulbert to ask whether the school was participating in the parade as was reported in the Chicago Tribune. I was told that...
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Laurie Higgins
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07.07.09
There is much to ruminate about following the publication of a study that compared the sexual behavior of teens who took virginity pledges with that of teens who did not. The study by Janet Rosenbaum appeared in the Jan. 2009...
