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New Congressional Report Recommends Abstinence Education
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.10.12
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce just released its report on sex education. Liberal proponents of comprehensive sex ed who profit from promoting early sexualization of children, premarital sex, sex severed from morality, promiscuity as entertainment,...
Wonderful Picture Books for Children
By Laurie Higgins   |   07.06.12
I’ve wanted an excuse to share with moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas, and anyone else who reads to little ones three of my favorite picture books for children, none of which are any longer published but are available in public libraries...
Higgins Responds to Critical Letter-to-the-Editor
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.29.12
The Wemstroms expressed their regret that a recent proposed bullying bill (HB 5290) failed to pass in the Illinois Senate [“Bullying bill should have been passed,” Freeport Journal-Standard June 26] and laid the blame for this failure on the Illinois...
Erie, Illinois School District Right to Turn Away Propaganda Aimed at Children
06.29.12
The Alliance Defense Fund has delivered a legal memo to the Erie Community Unit School District supporting its decision to discontinue the use of curriculum produced by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network for elementary school students.
Illinois Elementary School Defies Pro-Homosexual Political Correctness
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.11.12
There’s a remarkable news story coming out of Erie, Illinois. A wise and courageous school board has voted to remove a homosexuality-affirming picture book titled The Family Book from its elementary school library. Further, it has voted to remove all...
Two Legislative Victories for Illinois Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   06.01.12
Yesterday in Springfield, knowing that she wouldn’t have the votes to get the comprehensive sex ed bill passed, the bill’s chief House sponsor, State Representative Camille Lilly (D-Chicago) decided not to call it for a vote. This is a huge...
Bullying Bill Fails in Illinois Senate!
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.29.12
HB 5290 -- an unnecessary "bullying" bill that promotes "youth programming" and "restorative measures" which will used to shape students' beliefs about homosexuality and gender confusion -- failed in the Illinois Senate by a vote of 29-21-06 late in the afternoon on May 29th.
The Truth About Harvey Milk
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.17.12
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that President Barack Obama invited the obscene, Christian-hating, homosexual, manboy Dan Savage to the White House. After all, President Obama’s  “Safe School Czar” was the homosexual founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN),...
Bullying Bill Exposed Part II
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.11.12
For those who despite all evidence to the contrary still believe that the bullying amendment that is pending in the Illinois Senate is centrally about stopping bullying, please read what one of Illinois’ chief homosexual activists organizations, Equality Illinois, recently...
Sexual Risk Avoidance Abstinence Curriculum Approved by HHS
05.07.12
After an objective review by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Sexual Risk Avoidance abstinence curriculum, Heritage Keepers, has been approved and found effective in delaying sexual initiation among youth. The curriculum is offered by Heritage Community...
The New Bullying Amendment Exposed
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.05.12
IFI readers, please, whether you have children in schools or not, take seriously the assault on the minds and consciences of students, and take action against the newly amended and completely unnecessary anti-bullying bill: HB 5290. IFI has requested that...
Dan Savage Responds
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.27.12
With Bill Clinton-esque rhetorical slipperiness, Dan Savage responds to my criticism of his anti-Christian hate speech by citing a video from which I did not quote and to which I did not provide a link in either of my two articles this week. About that video, he asks the following:
Dan Savage Elmhurst College Update
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.25.12
WARNING: Not for younger readers My article on Dan Savage’s upcoming speaking engagement at Elmhurst College was posted and sent out late Monday afternoon. By early Tuesday morning, we discovered that several of Savage’s YouTube videos had been “removed by...
Homosexual Sex Columnist Dan Savage and Elmhurst College
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.23.12
Let's hope that audience members at the Dan Savage speaking engagement this coming Sunday, April 29, 2012 at Elmhurst College demonstrate the good sense and courage that several high school students recently demonstrated. Dan Savage, the vulgar, vitriol-spewing, homosexual sex columnist was for some bizarre reason invited to be the Friday keynote speaker at a national convention for high school journalism students held in Seattle, Washington last week.
Higgins Responds to Angry Day of Silence Email
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.19.12
On Wednesday morning, IFI received an email from a gentleman in Stockton, California, who is angry at our national effort to encourage parents to keep their children home from school on the Day of Silence if their school permits students...
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