Articles by Laurie Higgins
Soulless Teaching
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.18.08
In her article "Trans-Friendly Preschool" that appeared in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, Laurel Dykstra advocates ideas and recommends activities that can only be described as ignorant, radical, subversive, cruel, and pernicious. No civil society, let alone those who claim to be followers of Christ, would countenance such evil being perpetrated on our most innocent.
Vote on State-Subsidized Homosexual High School Looms
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.13.08
image_pdfimage_printNext week, the Chicago Board of Education will vote on the proposed Social Justice High School-Pride Campus that Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan has endorsed. Rumors are circulating that, despite Mayor Richard Daley’s explicit opposition to the school, the...
Social Justice or Educational Injustice
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.11.08
image_pdfimage_print“Teachers should teach their subjects. They should not teach peace or war or freedom or obedience or diversity or uniformity or nationalism or antinationalism or any other agenda that might properly be taught by a political leader or a talk-show...
Intolerant “Progressive” Educators
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.30.08
image_pdfimage_print“Propaganda Is To Democracy
What A Bludgeon Is To A Totalitarian State.”
~Noam Chomsky An alumnus of District 113, an affluent school district on the North Shore of Chicago, recently informed Illinois Family Institute that once again public money is...
Breaking News on Proposal for Controversial Homosexual High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.23.08
image_pdfimage_printChicago Sun Times reporter Fran Spielman writes that Mayor Daley has expressed his opposition to the Social Justice High School-Pride Campus (see article below). It looks like the tide may turn against this foolish proposal that would further harm teens...
A “Gay” High School for Chicago?
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.14.08
image_pdfimage_printNext Wednesday, October 22nd, the Chicago Board of Education will consider a proposal for a “gay”-friendly high school for homosexual and gender-confused students. The proposal already has the recommendation of School CEO Arne Duncan. Despite the fact that 70 percent...
Annoyed Librarian Takes ALA to the Woodshed
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.08.08
image_pdfimage_printOn Oct. 3, 2008, the Washington Post covered the story of some high school students in Virginia who attempted to expose the “book banning” activities engaged in by their high school librarians who censor virtually all resources that express conservative...
American Library Association’s Book Banning Witch Hunt Should Begin At Home
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.26.08
image_pdfimage_printFor the past 26 years, the increasingly radical American Library Association (ALA) has celebrated a week dedicated to the myth of book banning and censorship in public libraries. In truth, the books that are supposedly ‘banned’ are readily available for...
Do Christian Spin Doctors Heal the “LGBTQ” Community?
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.19.08
image_pdfimage_printDespite the fact that I am neither a theologian nor a pastor, I’m going to make what I hope are not presumptuous observations about the way some individuals, church leaders, and non-profit organizations attempt to build bridges with the homosexual...
Censorship and Public Schools — What is really being censored?
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.11.08
image_pdfimage_printI recently attended a town hall meeting during which an impassioned public debate ensued regarding the very controversial decision of our public high school superintendent and school board to permit the exceedingly obscene, pro-homosexual play Angels in America: A Gay...
A Silent Disruption
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.07.08
image_pdfimage_printA broad coalition of individuals and organizations is urging parents to oppose the Day of Silence (DOS), a political action sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), because it politicizes the classroom for ideological purposes.  The explicit...
“See You at the Pole” This Wednesday (Sept. 24th)
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.12.08
image_pdfimage_printNow in its 18th year, “See you at the Pole” is an annual event to “bring students to their school flagpoles to intercede for their leaders, schools, and families, asking God to bring moral and spiritual awakening to their campuses...
Political Indoctrination Replaces Education in Wisconsin English Class
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.14.07
image_pdfimage_printI’m speechless. I’m also beginning to understand how a homosexuality-affirming middle school was by default approved by the Milwaukee Board of Education. Wisconsin public schools are permitting radical ideologues to use public money to promote their subversive, unproven moral conclusions...
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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