Articles by Laurie Higgins
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Laurie Higgins
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03.11.09
Yesterday, I posted Part I of my response to a troubling email that was sent to the entire faculty of Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL by an English teacher. There were two central reasons that I decided to write...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.09.09
As a result of my article about Stevenson High School’s dance for students who identify as homosexual, an English teacher sent an email to the entire Stevenson faculty denouncing Illinois Family Institute.
Her email exposes the presumptuous attitude many public...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.04.09
The Illinois Family Institute is part of a national coalition of pro-family organizations urging parents to call their children out of school on April 17. This is the day designated for this year’s Day of Silence when students and/or teachers...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.04.09
On January 22, 2009, U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman ruled that the following Illinois law is unconstitutional:
(105 ILCS 20/1) Sec. 1. In each public school classroom the teacher in charge shall observe a brief period of silence with...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.03.09
Yet another bone-headed decision at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL. A few weeks ago, it was the student newspaper article on debauchery — I mean, “hooking up,”– which was approved by the newspaper sponsor Barbara Thill. And...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.25.09
Does anyone stop and think about why the government is involved in marriage at all? Some clarity on this issue may prevent the culture-destroying institutionalization of same-sex civil unions and their inevitable successor same-sex marriage-well, both clarity and courage will...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.25.09
Wayne Besen, former spokesman for the subversive homosexual activist Human Rights Campaign and founder of the homosexual hate organization,Truth Wins Out, apparently can’t make a distinction between a domestic terrorist threat and-a metaphor.
Besen has a West Virginia marriage initiative...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.19.09
An un-righteously indignant James Ensley, President of Georgia Log Cabin Republicans, has sent a vitriolic tirade against Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth to the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele. For those unfamiliar with Log Cabin...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.18.09
The Chicago Archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools (OCS) has distributed its “Year in Review” Report 2009 detailing its accomplishments, data and progress in three focus areas: Catholic Identity, Academic Excellence and School Vitality.
93,286 elementary and secondary students attend Catholic...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.17.09
Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL has found itself in the midst of a mini-tempest as a result of a recent article in the student newspaper, the Statesman, on the topic of hooking-up. For the uninitiated, hooking up...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.09.09
An elementary school in — where else — Massachusetts, sent a letter to parents in August 2008 informing them that “Our night custodian has informed us of his decision to change his gender and, as we begin the school year,...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.06.09
If you thought our corporate profiteers couldn’t sink any lower than Abercrombie does in using soft-core porn images to lure teens, you’re not imaginative enough. For some twisted reason, the retail clothing chain American Apparel, which sells clothing and accessories...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.05.09
Kristen McQueary of the Southtown Star newspaper has the dubious honor of being the first journalist of whom I’m aware to mischaracterize a position of mine through rhetorical manipulation.
The offense occurs in this statement by McQueary: “[Higgins] went on...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.05.09
Kristen McQueary of the Southtown Star newspaper has the dubious honor of being the first journalist of whom I’m aware to mischaracterize a position of mine through rhetorical manipulation. (Read McQueary’s columnHERE.)
The offense occurs in this statement by McQueary:...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.02.09
This week Illinoisans were greeted with the news that the new CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Ron Huberman, self-identifies as homosexual. Mayor Richard Daley’s choice as head of the third largest school district in the nation, one that serves more...
