Articles by Laurie Higgins
Oberlin College Student Exposes Transinsanity
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.21.21
image_pdfimage_print“Peter” Fray-Witzer, a privileged white female student at uber-woke Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio claims to have been recently triggered big time by the presence of workmen in her dorm room who came to install a spanking new radiator so...
Girl Sexually Assaulted in Girls’ H.S. Bathroom
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.14.21
image_pdfimage_printLeftists used their favorite tactics for silencing those who won’t kowtow to their perverse, deceitful, and destructive sexuality ideology. When conservatives warned that allowing males in female private spaces puts girls and women at risk, leftists called them ugly names...
Cowardice and the Neutering of America
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.12.21
image_pdfimage_printThe great evil in America for over two centuries was slavery and its ugly aftermath. Too many Christians for too long stood passive as Satan attacked the humanity of African Americans. Too few had the courage to do what Wheaton...
The Smearing of Doug Wilson
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.07.21
image_pdfimage_printI was hoping not to wade into the gutter with the critics of Douglas Wilson, who in IFI’s view is one of the most important truth-tellers on the corrupt American scene. But the calumny hurled at Wilson is so manifestly...
Taxpayer-Funded Libraries Defend Obscenity, Child Corruption and Censorship
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.04.21
How many times have conservatives heard “progressives” claim that the controversial, obscene material they want taught to children is “age-appropriate”?

Government school teachers who are paid by the public want absolute autonomy and absolute anonymity, and that is why we now have adults introducing obscene material to other people’s children.
Losing Our Religion
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.29.21
The Left seeks to control our language in order to control culture by making it impossible to express ideas they detest. They seek both to ban words and to determine how terms are used. That is why pronouns no longer correspond to biological sex but to subjective feelings about one’s biological sex. In order to both enhance their victim status and to erase from the public square any expressions of moral disapproval, they are working feverishly to control the language.
Benet Academy Losing Christian Identity
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.23.21
image_pdfimage_printBenet Academy, a prestigious and expensive private high school that identifies as Catholic, has just capitulated to the cacophonous voices of apostates and heretics in its midst. The drama began several days ago when the school located in the affluent...
Legendary Hypocrisy and Deceit of Democrats
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.22.21
image_pdfimage_printAs Leftists unravel and incinerate the fabric of America, it’s helpful—unpleasant but helpful—to recall some of their now legendary acts of hypocrisy and deceit, including the widespread use of Newspeak. So, let’s start with that. While claiming to have a...
Illinois Dem’s Bill to Punish Texas for Heartbeat Law
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.20.21
On September 14, State Representative Cassidy, filed a bill in response to the Texas Heartbeat Act. Her bill (HB 4146) is titled the “The Expanding Abortion Services Act.” While this bill addresses pregnancies resulting from “sexual assault” and “domestic abuse,” it goes further. If passed it would make it possible for any man in a consensual sexual relationship—including a marital relationship—that results in an “unintended” pregnancy to be sued civilly...
Do Christians Regularly Violate the Separation of Church and State?
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.15.21
image_pdfimage_printMany Christians and non-Christians misunderstand the relationship between morality and religion. Many mistakenly believe that morality is the same thing as religion and, therefore, mistakenly believe that they should not advocate for policies that reflect their moral beliefs. But morals...
Indoctrinating from Cradle to College
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.09.21
image_pdfimage_printGovernment schools in the cities and suburbs alike are unfit places to educate children. In the past week, school controversies in Illinois and California have exposed the unfitness of schools. First up, there was the story of woke third grade...
“Progressives” Say the Darndest Things About Killing Tiny Humans
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.07.21
image_pdfimage_printFor those who have been enjoying the waning days of summer away from news and social media, basking maskless by a refreshing body of water or hiking in a cool forest with a face as naked as a newborn babe’s,...
What Biden and Never-Trumpers Have Done
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.01.21
image_pdfimage_printYesterday, Joe Biden proclaimed the evacuation from Afghanistan an “extraordinary success” that was executed exactly the way “the mission was designed.” Meanwhile, the Taliban celebrated this extraordinary success, also known as the Taliban’s humiliation of the most powerful military in...
Teacher Wants Students to Pledge Allegiance to “LGBTQ” Flag
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.30.21
image_pdfimage_printRemember when homosexuals lied through their teeth saying all they wanted was to be free to do what they wanted in the privacy of their bedrooms? Those were the days, my friend, the gullible thought they’d never end. But they...
The World Suffers Because of Myopic Leftist Rage
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.27.21
On November 7, 2020, four days after the General Election, a millennial friend who identifies as a Christian and is a devoted disciple of critical race theory and BLM posted this sacrilegious image on her Facebook page:
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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