Articles by Laurie Higgins
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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...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.29.09
In the Jan. 28, 2009 edition of the Chicago Tribune, there is a story about two sexual amputees who are suing the state over its refusal to change the “gender” designation on their birth certificates from “male” to “female.” Several...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.27.09
“To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.”~Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) In a piece I wrote early last October, entitled “Pro-Homosexual Advocates Seek the Hearts and Minds of Our Little Ones,” I wrote that...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.27.09
It was recently announced that the Universityof Idahohas reversed its decision to allow co-ed dorm rooms. As reported on WorldNetDaily, Bryan Fischer of Idaho Values Alliance has commended University of Idaho President Steven Daley Laursen for the administration’s decision to...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.21.09
The Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has announced that in addition to the Day of Silence, it is sponsoring another day during which it encourages young impressionable and confused students to celebrate disordered thinking and immoral behavior. TransAction! Day...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.13.09
President-elect Barack Obama claims to desire to unify the country. In one of his notable speeches, he said, “So I ask you to walk with me, and march with me, and join your voice with mine, and together we will...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.08.09
Below is an email sent to Illinois Family Institute on Dec. 22, 2008. I am posting it here, followed by my response because the writer expresses increasingly common sentiments and deeply troubling, fallacious ideas that any of us who hope...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.08.09
Below is an email I received regarding my criticism of the production of Macbeth that I attended last Friday night, followed by my response which I hope is helpful to others who may be confused by the same issues the...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.06.09
In a November 14 article in — where else — the San Francisco Chronicle, Cleve Jones, a gay activist and creator of the AIDS quilt, and Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter for the new pro-homosexual film Milk and writer for the...
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Laurie Higgins
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01.06.09
I love Chicago Shakespeare Theater. I have seen half a dozen productions at their Navy Pier location and loved every one. I try to attend at least one play a year-as money permits. But this year, I wasted both my...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.30.08
The nation’s first “gay”-affirming middle school has just been approved right here in the Midwest. On Dec. 16, 2008, the Milwaukee Board of Education approved a “gay-friendly” school for 11, 12, 13 and 14-year-olds.
According to U.S. News and World...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.18.08
On a recent episode of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart debated Mike Huckabee on the issue of legalized homosexual marriage-an oxymoron if ever there was one. (Click HERE to watch video.)
What is truly astonishing is that Jon Stewart’s debate...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.16.08
Obama searched the nation for the best candidate to serve as Secretary of Education, and, lo and behold, he found just the person right here in Illinois: Arne Duncan, current CEO of the Chicago Public School system.
To be fair,...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.09.08
“He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office...
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Laurie Higgins
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12.02.08
Here is an excerpt from a Tampa Bay Online article that articulates a truth far too many Christians don’t want to acknowledge:
“Twenty years ago no one was even saying the words ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian,’ and now here we are...
