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Laurie's Chinwags

Illinois Family Instituteillinoisfamily.org
Laurie’s Chinwags are podcasts of her articles and are part of our new effort to provide IFI subscribers with another way to access information and ideas. We will be making these podcasts available for her new articles as well as select articles from the past on topics of pressing importance. The primary focus of these podcasts is sexuality, particularly how leftist views of sexuality harm the public good. Laurie examines the flaws in the specious secular arguments used to normalize homosexuality and “gender” confusion and which confuse, deceive, and even persuade Americans. She looks at how these flawed arguments harm individuals, families, marriage, and education. We call these discussions “chinwags” in the hope that listeners will figuratively chat with Laurie as they listen and later will literally chat with neighbors, co-workers, lawmakers, church leaders, friends, and family members on these topics.
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PODCAST: Critical Race Theory Hide and Seek

Project Veritas has just released another exposé in which a profiteering propagandist who self-identifies as an “educator” admits that he promotes critical race theory to and in public schools by omitting the words “critical race theory.” Yes, Americans really are that gullible. The racist scamster is Quintin Bostic , a homosexual who works for the Washington D.C.-based Teaching Lab that—according to Bostic—offers critical race theory-based curricula school districts, including districts in the ...

Jan 19, 20237 min

PODCAST: What Does It Take for Parents and Churches to Train Up Kids Rightly?

There’s a grand act of un-creation taking place all across this nation. Leftists are busy with this ugly business of un-creating order, decency, justice, compassion, and beauty, and children play a central role in this ugly business. To leftists, children are both objects of un-creation and tools for un-creating society. If we want to see with greater clarity the plans leftists have for the nation, there is no better place to examine than Illinois. Let’s hover above Illinois for a few minutes to...

Jan 11, 202310 min

PODCAST: Homosexual Lawmakers Abuse the Legal System to Abuse Minors

Leftists have redefined “hate.” To them hatred refers to ideas and moral beliefs that they think harm others. So, using that definition, how do leftists hate people? Let us count the ways. Well, not all the ways. That would suck dry the wellsprings of hope from which we draw at the beginning of each New Year and which are granted to us by a gracious God who has jobs for us to do—with joy. So, let’s look at just one way leftists demonstrate their hatred of humans: legislation pursued in Californi...

Jan 06, 20239 min

PODCAST: In 2023 Resolve to Resist Pride and Fear in Order to Preserve Liberty

Two recent conversations over two days with two different people were variations on the theme of cultural dis-integration—or, perhaps more aptly, anti-culture integration. We are in the midst of a revolution propelled by the integration of the government—including government schools—big business, social media, the arts and entertainment industries, medical and mental health organizations, the legacy press, and even the military industrial complex in the service of creating a monolithic anti-cult...

Dec 30, 20229 min

PODCAST: Fetishist Who Pretends to Be Female Arrested for Indecent Exposure

Haven’t leftists sanctimoniously proclaimed that no “trans”-identifying man would ever harm women in women’s private spaces? Haven’t leftists bristled with faux-umbrage at the suggestion that allowing objectively male persons in women’s private spaces will result in predators pretending to be women to easily access their victims? Haven’t leftists hurled the epithet “transphobe” at anyone who dared to suggest that female-identifying men and teenage boys should never have access to female private ...

Dec 22, 20228 min

PODCAST: Help Us Uphold What is Good and True in Illinois

Children are growing up in an America where adults celebrate the dismemberment of children in their mothers’ wombs. They are growing up where cross-dressing adult men twerk in children’s departments of public libraries, where adults tell children that some women have penises, where adults allow cross-dressing men into locker rooms with young girls and women, where teachers assign pornographic books to minors, and where surgeons profit from cutting off the breasts off 13-year-old girls. And child...

Dec 21, 20227 min

PODCAST: Biden Appointee Sam Brinton a Fetishist Liar and Thief

Biden’s Deputy A ssistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, the notoriously creepy Sam Brinton , is in the news again and again for all the wrong reasons. Correction: Brinton finally lost his job on Monday after not one but two luggage thefts at two airports: one in Las Vegas and one in Minneapolis. His luggage of choice is women’s luggage where can be found women’s jewelry, undergarments, and clothing. Read more… …...

Dec 14, 20229 min

PODCAST: Wheaton Middle School’s Offensive Christmas Display

In a brazen act of anti-Christian disrespect and cultural appropriation, Edison Middle School (CUSD 200) in the formerly conservative town of Wheaton, Illinois has chosen to deface a Christian symbol that celebrates the birth of Christ. The DuPage Policy Journal reported that Edison is prominently displaying a full-size rainbow-colored “gay pride” Christmas tree during the Christmas season in honor of homoeroticism. Originally, the tree also included handmade pink ornaments with the messages “Be...

Dec 09, 20225 min

PODCAST: What Do Leftist Teachers Really Think About Conservatives

If you want to know what “progressive” teachers think of conservative parents, please take a gander at the following blog post from recently retired Deerfield High School English teacher (and former colleague) David Hirsch. On October 6, 2022, Hirsch published a post titled, “ Watch Out Parents: Big Conservative Is Not Just Coming After Teachers and Librarians ” in which he makes a number of mindboggling claims. read more… …...

Dec 08, 202211 min

PODCAST: District 211 Female Impersonator Allegedly Steals from His Non-Profit

Well, well, well, a recent news story pokes a hole in the leftist media portrayal of crossdressers as paragons of virtue and mental health who must never be criticized. The story emerges from Chicago where LaSaia Wade , a crossdressing man who spends his days trying to normalize sexual deviance, has been fired from Brave Space Alliance, the “LGBTQ” center he founded and which, according to The Blaze , reportedly “grew during the pandemic into a multimillion-dollar operation.” Mr. Wade has allege...

Dec 02, 202212 min

PODCAST: Sexual Deviance Destroying Marriage and Religious Freedom

As you read this, remember how many times leftists assured Americans that homosexuals wanted nothing more than to be left alone to do their thing in the privacy of their bedrooms. And remember how they asserted that the legalization of same-sex “marriage” would affect no one, no way, no how. Two days ago, the Corruption of Marriage Act (COMA)—known euphemistically by leftists as the Respect for Marriage Act—passed the U.S. Senate and will now go back to the U.S. House where it is expected to sli...

Dec 01, 202210 min

PODCAST: Leftists Want to Enshrine a Right to Exterminate the Unborn in Illinois’ Constitution

Leftist boomers and their ideological spawn together have created the worst generations, shameful heirs of a noble legacy hard-won by our forebears. Leftist boomers, taking their cues from pervert Alfred Kinsey , hedonist man-child Hugh Hefner , and addled Timothy Leary , ushered in the drug and sexual revolutions. Satiating primitive urges, escapist longings, and self-centered desires while eschewing self-denial and God are the driving forces of these generations. They believe their Deep Though...

Nov 29, 20229 min

PODCAST: Government Predators Hunt Conservatives

By hook, crook, the DOJ, FBI, policies, Executive Orders, courts, and laws, leftist public “servants”—both elected and unelected—have long had conservatives in the sights of their weapons of war. And they’ve had powerful allies in this battle in the legacy news media, government schools, and, more recently, social media and corporate America, including virtually all of the entertainment and publishing industries. There’s no need for an exhaustive list of the ways leftists hunt conservatives. Eve...

Nov 23, 202210 min

PODCAST: Democrats Have Marriage and States’ Rights in Their Sights for Lame Duck Session

Since the unconstitutional Roe v. Wade was overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , leftists have been roiling in rage at the thought that states are now free to enact the will of their voters with regard to killing humans in the womb. In his concurrence, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued that three other Supreme Court cases should be revisited in that they too lacked constitutional grounding—an argument made also by the esteemed Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork...

Nov 15, 20226 min

PODCAST: 2022 Post-Election Thoughts

I just read this comment from a conservative: “I’m done. Prayers didn’t help. We are doomed. Why even vote?” Come on, conservatives, SNAP OUT OF IT! … It’s fine to take a moment to absorb the shock and disappointment. … Okay, that moment has now passed. Now, it’s time to take stock, point fingers, give some GOP leaders the heave-ho, and then get to work . Read more… …

Nov 10, 20225 min

PODCAST: California Wokesters Want to Bar All Conservatives from the Police Force

California Governor Gavin Newsom has decided to throw a boulder in the path of conservative people of faith who want to serve their communities as police officers. In September, Newsom signed into law a bill that amends a reasonable existing law which requires police officers to be free from any “emotional or mental condition that might adversely affect the exercise of the powers of a peace officer.” Newsom’s wildly unreasonable amendment requires that police officers be evaluated for “bias” bas...

Nov 04, 20223 min

PODCAST: California Panders to Trans Cult and Harms Residents

Halloween: the favorite holiday of men who cross-dress, wear woman-face, and like to hang around young children. And in San Diego they did just that. The San Diego Union-Tribune (U-T) reported on the “first-ever Boo Bash,” which included, “candy, a kid’s costume contest,” and, fittingly, “a Disney-villain themed drag queen performance.” Drag queens are villainous—that is, depraved—and Disney is now America’s premier purveyor of depravity to children. Read more… …...

Nov 02, 20228 min

PODCAST: Deceitful Divisive Anti-Christian Screed about Darren Bailey

Friday morning, Illinois Family Institute (IFI) was unpleasantly greeted with JB Pritzker ’s deceitful, divisive, anti-Christian screed—er, press release—that uses IFI to besmirch his gubernatorial opponent, the exceptional Darren Bailey . Through this screed/press release Pritzker unwittingly besmirched every conservative Illinoisan—including theologically orthodox Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, Orthodox Jews, and Muslims. For those who haven’t yet read Pritzker’s poisonous press rel...

Oct 29, 202213 min

PODCAST: Feminist Author and Abortion Fanatic Practiced at the Art of Deception

Jessica Valenti , author of the book Sex Object: A Memoir and founder of the blog Feministing , is a dishonest woman with the unseemly life mission to keep abortion safe, legal, and commonplace. She describes herself on TikTok as a “feminist author” and “a much bigger deal on Twitter,” who writes “about abortion every day.” Valenti, an avid proponent of women killing their own children—who are the greatest source of joy in life—aptly calls herself “Auntie Killjoy.” Read more… …...

Oct 27, 20229 min

PODCAST: Shapeshifter Tulsi Gabbard Exits Democrat Party

While many Republicans are celebrating Tulsi Gabbard ’s exit from the destructive Democrat Party, Illinois Family Institute is taking a wait-and-see approach to yet another political incarnation of Gabbard. While rejecting the Democrat Party and its baleful policies is always a good thing, not every exit from the Democrat Party constitutes an embrace of conservative principles. Two decades ago, Gabbard rightly opposed the legal recognition of homosexual relationships as marriages. Later, as a De...

Oct 13, 20228 min

PODCAST: The Trans Cult’s Diabolical Quest for Cultural Hegemony

Recently, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Transgender Health Clinic, and Akron Children’s Hospital have been under fire for engaging in experimental cross-sex hormone-doping on gender confused teens—some effects of which are risky and irreversible—and for performing mutilating surgeries on the healthy sexual anatomy of minors. These Mengelesque procedures are beginning to pierce th...

Oct 11, 202216 min

PODCAST: Stacey Abrams Wore Her Tin-Foil Hat in Public

Uh oh, somebody at the Today Show didn’t get the message from the Ministry of Truth. Last week, a panel of four Today Show talking heads called the human creature with human organs, a human head, human limbs, human features, and human expressions growing inside of a woman a “baby.” #HumanHeadsWillRoll Stacey Abrams is not going to be happy about that. Science-denier, election-denier, presidential-wannabe, softcore porn writer, and conspiracy-theorist nonpareil Stacey Abrams thinks Americans are ...

Sep 30, 20229 min

PODCAST: State University Honors Pervert

On September 9, 2022, Indiana University (IU) issued a press release announcing that in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Kinsey Institute, the university has installed a life-size bronze statue of entomologist and pervert extraordinaire Alfred C. Kinsey after whom the Kinsey Institute is named. Demonstrating the astonishing ignorance and hypocrisy of leftists, the press release says, The sculpture’s installation on the Bloomington campus demonstrates the university’s pride in the living lega...

Sep 26, 20229 min

PODCAST: School Administrators Support Teacher with Fetish

Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not on Earth anymore. By now many Americans have heard—or worse, seen—photos of the male shop teacher in Ontario, Canada who sports mammoth mammaries with erect nipples in skintight tops to class. The mentally ill and morally degenerate teacher goes by his new name, Kayla Lemieux , and he now sashays around school in a drag queen-like costume with wig, womanface, and women’s clothes. It is a grotesque and insulting caricature of women and surely a fetish. I guess mocki...

Sep 21, 20226 min

PODCAST: How to Make Immorality Unjudge-able: Redefine Identity

Sexual libertines 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, sexual libertines pursued the inclusion of homosexuality (and now “gender identity”) in anti-discrimination law. To that end, sexual libertines relentlessly compared those two groups (i.e., blacks and homosexuals) who had been historically mistreated, suggesting without proving that since blacks have been ...

Sep 15, 20226 min

PODCAST: Illinoisans Beware Leftist SAFE-T for Criminals Act Takes Effect in January 2023

Leftists, practiced at the art of deception, do not care about anyone who lives in America. They care about one thing: maintaining power at all costs. And they think catering to criminals will achieve that goal. Case in point the in-credibly—as in not credibly–named Safe-T Act ( S afety A ccountability F airness and E quity- T oday), which passed Illinois’ irresponsible far-leftist General Assembly and was signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker on Feb. 22, 2021. The most controversial provision...

Sep 14, 20227 min

PODCAST: Woke Evanston Illinois Follows Trans Cultism and Equity Logic to Their Indecent End

On September 6, the Human Services Committee of Evanston City Council voted unanimously to send Alderman Devon Reid ’s proposed ordinance to allow women to go topless in “ all public places (forward to 51:25)” to the “Equity and Empowerment Committee.” Reid wants his proposed ordinance reviewed over concerns that “ it excluded the transgender community .” How might it have done that, you may wonder. Well, apparently, some objected to the ordinance’s “gender binary” language. Evanston sex-deniers...

Sep 09, 20227 min

PODCAST: Does the Bible Mandate Nice Language When Condemning Evil?

While their sanctimonious and empty proclamations of fealty to inclusivity, love, tolerance, unity, autonomy, freedom, and diversity echo systemically throughout American institutions, leftists reveal their inky underbellies rotted with hypocrisy and depravity when they screech hater and hurl death wishes at Christians who dare to disagree boldly with critical race theory or evil ideas related to sexuality. But it’s not just leftists, secularists, and atheists who faux-tie their panties in a twi...

Sep 06, 202213 min

PODCAST: Dark Lord Biden’s Soul of the Nation Speech

Biden began his dark speech by extolling the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as the “rock upon which this nation is built. They are how we became the greatest nation on Earth. They are why, for more than two centuries, America has been a beacon to the world.” But then his dark side flickered to life… Read more… …

Sep 03, 20229 min
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