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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...
02.04.09
Four days after the Chicago Board of Education confirmed Mayor Richard Daley’s choice of Ron Huberman as the next Chicago Public Schools CEO last month, it was revealed in a Sun-Times story that the new schools chief was gay and...
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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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01.27.09
“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...
01.21.09
Want to know how to win the culture war? Watch The Laramie Project, a textbook, in dramatic form, of how homosexuals use emotionalism and the media to sway public opinion.
01.12.09
John Biver – ChampionNews.net
A few of the headlines on the Drudge Report this morning involve an international discussion over the relative strength of the U.S. and Russia after the events of the past year, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, and...
01.08.09
by Phyllis Schlafly – Eagle Forum
Why did 18-to-29-year-old evangelicals vote for Barack Obama despite his apostasy on the fundamental moral issues of abortion and same-sex unions? They voted 32 percent for Obama, twice the percentage of that demographic group...
01.08.09
by Pete Chagnon
Critics of America’s public school system have launched a new effort highlighting the need for Christians to exit the system.
The initiative — dubbed The Call to Dunkirk (video link) — was launched by Dr. Bruce Shortt,...
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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...
By
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...
01.06.09
The National Center for Education Statistics, which is part of the Department of Education estimates that homeschooling grew 36 percent between 2003 and 2007. “Homeschoolers can now be found in all walks of life,” said Michael Smith, HSLDA President.
The...
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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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12.16.08
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,...
