Common sense suggests that public schools should  separate girls and boys in locker rooms and restrooms on  campuses. For the Left in Illinois, common sense equals discrimination and that’s why they have sidetracked legislation that its sponsor contends will protect...

Target recently announced its new restroom policy, which embraces the absurd notion that in order to be inclusive, sex differences cannot be acknowledged or respected. In light of Target’s sex-integrated, co-ed restroom policy, I called my local Target and had...

Homosexual activists have long sought to transform cultural disapproval of homoeroticism into approval, and one way they pursued this goal was to co-opt the fight of blacks for racial equality. Hence, they pursued the inclusion of homosexuality (and now “gender...

While another case of religious discrimination rears its bigoted head, liberals with unseeing eyes and venomous tongues mock any suggestion that Christians are facing persecution. Worse still they virulently oppose the types of laws that would protect religious liberty—you know,...

She was only 17 years-old when she died. Her father cut out her tongue and burned her alive. What was her crime, and why did this man kill his own daughter in the most horrific imaginable way? He was a...

Well known Christian radio host Mark Elfstrand, of WYLL’s “Let’s Talk,” often has Laurie Higgins on his program to discuss cultural issues in the news.  His show airs weekdays from 4 to 6 pm on 1160 AM in the greater...

Were you aware that April is “STD Awareness Month”? Neither was I. STD, of course, stands for “Sexually Transmitted Disease” – also known as venereal disease or STI (“Sexually Transmitted Infection”). Seems to me that with the virally disproportionate spread...

The Left is becoming even more entrenched in our taxpayer funded public schools. The April 15th Day of Silence is just one not-too-surprising example of that reality. Many indoctrinated students and even some teachers will keep silent Friday in classrooms...

Christians are the intellectual outlaws under the current secular conditions. To believe the truth claims of Christianity is to defy principalities and powers -- and to face an intellectual onslaught.

Lake Forest, Illinois resident Dianne Casuto in a letter in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday criticized a previous commentary in which Elizabeth Edens expressed concern over the safety to women posed by female-impersonators being allowed in women’s restrooms. Cassuto wrote,...

Last week, IFI's own Laurie Higgins recorded an interview with Craig Dellimore for his weekly "At Issue" program to discuss religious liberty verses the radical LGBT agenda. Make no mistake, this type of mainstream media exposure -- an uninterrupted half hour examination of the issues from a conservative perspective -- is exceedingly rare. While the media usually misrepresents orthodox Christians and how we live our faith in the public square, this was an amazing opportunity to elaborate on the Judeo-Christian principles we seek to uphold.

The upcoming National Day of Silence (DOS) On Friday, April 15, organized and promoted by the extreme leftist Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), urges students to refuse to speak for an entire school day including during class. The...

I had no idea who the man was, but he ended his note to me on Facebook with these words: “You’re a monster, and you do not exhibit anything near ‘Christ’ like. You are a demon. You are a plague...

In an act of extraordinary hypocrisy, PayPal, which last month announced its plans to expand into Cuba, has decided not to expand into North Carolina because the state is determined to keep its public bathrooms and locker rooms safe. PayPal...

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” Aleister Crowley, Satanic priest and paragon to Alfred Kinsey, father of modern sex education Order and anarchy. Good and evil. Truth and lies. Natural sexuality (within marriage) and homosexuality...