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Laurie Higgins is a spokesperson for the Illinois Family
Institute and an unrepentant, hatefilled bigot. Of course, you sort of know
what to expect from someone like this. “I don’t think there is a greater threat
to First Amendment speech and religious liberty in America today than that
posed by the homosexual agenda,” says Higgins.
How so? Well people criticize Higgins, and if more reasonable people
criticizing her and calling her out as a bigot is not a violation of her
religious liberty,
then what is? Therefore, Higgins has called for a boycott of the Day of
Silence, since protests against the bullying of homosexuals are ungodly. And
also a violation of Higgins’s first amendment rights, which seem to be viewed
as two sides of the same coin.
Of course, there is also a conspiracy. Higgins agrees with Linda Harvey that
homosexuality is, indeed, a choice, and that “homosexual activists” are
covering up that fact to serve their agenda. But at least Higgins assures us that the Family
Institute is all about diversity and choice:
everyone should be allowed to live the way Higgins wants them to live, and
parents should be allowed to prevent their children from being exposed to
people who have different views and opinions than themselves (i.e. Higgins).
Somewhat disconcertingly, Higgins has gradually emerged as
one of the most central figures in the anti-gay movement. She was, for
instance, an “instructor” at Peter LaBarbera’s 3 Days of Hate.
Her first talk at the conference was “Using reason and logic in answering
pro-homosexuality arguments”; one looks in vain for Higgins herself applying
reason and logic in her own “arguments”, but suspects that she isn’t really
sufficiently familiar with reason and logic to be able to distinguish reason
and logic from incoherent ranting. Her second talk was “Corrupting children,
politicizing schools: the homosexual youth agenda”, and that, I believe, need
no further explanation.
She is also on the record trying to rewrite history (in
rather breathtaking ways) to reflect her fancies.
Diagnosis: A really unpleasant human being, Higgins’s
misunderstandings of how the world hangs together, or how concepts, and common
decency connect together may admittedly be viewed as bizarrely fascinating. Higgins
is extremely dangerous, though.
She wasn't particularly happy about Illinois legalizing gay marriage, and refused to back down without engaging in a thoroughly insane and nonsensical rant.
ReplyDeleteHaving apparently lost the war, the bigots seem to try to pick smaller battles. For instance, against the University of Notre Dame's recognition of an LGBT group. Higgins was predictably disappointed and warned of "eternal" consequences and claiming that in recognizing its LGBT students, Notre Dame might as well affirm “other sin predispositions” like incest or pedophilia, based on the fact that she is stupid, hateful, bigoted and pathologically unable to recognize relevant distinctions. Here she weighs in on the Grammys, which according to Higgins was “a gawdy[sic] spitball hurled in the all-seeing eye of a holy God.”
ReplyDeleteAs expected Higgins has advocated the adoption of Russian anti-gay laws in the US.
Among the most breathtaking instances of desperate stupidity on the Internet, she has also tried to argue that allowing gay marriage is as wrong as banning interracial marriage. She ... stumbles a bit when trying to elaborate on that one.