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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: The Slippery Slope Leftists Claim Doesn’t Exist

Writer Lauren Rowello’s peculiar perspective on attending a “pride” parade with her husband and young children five years ago was published in the Washington Post on June 29, 2021 and provides yet more evidence of the existence of the slippery slope leftists deny: [O]ur elementary-schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats, raising an eyebrow at a bare-chested man in dark sunglasses whose black suspenders clipped into a leather thong. The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner...

Jul 07, 202111 min

PODCAST: Wildly Woke Wheaton College Professor Nathan Cartagena

Here’s an excerpt from a July 7, 2020, blog post titled “ The White Man Leading the White Man’s Party—and the White Church ” written by Nathan Cartagena , associate professor of philosophy at evangelical flagship Wheaton College: Read more… …

Jul 02, 202114 min

PODCAST: Self-Worship and the Slaughter of the Unborn

In a 2020 interview with The Guardian , Stevie Nicks , Fleetwood Mac singer, revealed her over-inflated sense of the importance of Fleetwood Mac in her rationalization of the decision to end the life of her unborn child: If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac. There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs … I would have had to walk away. … A...

Jun 30, 20218 min

PODCAST: School Boards Feeling Some Righteous Wrath

I recently wrote about the growing resistance to the usurpation of public schools for leftist ideological purposes. The resistance movement is spreading and growing in both intensity and numbers. For decades there have been spear-wielding soldiers fighting the good fight, but, shamefully, the troops that should have been marshalling behind those on the frontlines did nothing. They didn’t back the courageous men and women on the frontlines. They sat home fearful and semi-embarrassed of their cons...

Jun 25, 202113 min

PODCAST: Leftist Freak-Out About Efforts to Give Critical Race Theory the Heave Ho

Three recent articles, one on NBC on June 15 , one in Vanity Fair on June 16 , and one on CNN on June 18 , futilely attempt to recast conservative objections to the use of public schools to promote Critical Race Theory as a “freakout,” “national panic,” “moral panic,” and “hysteria.” When leftists lack sound arguments, they resort to demagoguery. Any means to the ends of preventing conservatives from being as vocal as leftists in shaping culture are, in the narrow minds of leftists, justified—in...

Jun 21, 202113 min

PODCAST: School Boards Feel the Heat of Parental Opposition to Critical Race Theory

The poisonous effects of the promulgation of Critical Race Theory (CRT)in both leftist-controlled public schools and private schools—including even Christian private schools—are seen daily. We see the effects in graduation ceremonies ruined, employees fired, and scores of BLM/Antifa “insurrections” that resulted in the destruction of government property and injuries to police officers. At long last, however, the justified and overdue resistance to CRT and its diverse manifestations are burbling ...

Jun 16, 20218 min

PODCAST: Valedictorian’s Shameful Plea for Child Sacrifice

Paxton Smith , a card-carrying member of the Cult of Self, just revealed her narcissistic bona fides in her valedictory diatribe advocating for human slaughter at Lake Highlands High School in Richardson, Texas. She dumped her pre-approved speech and replaced it with a controversial political polemic. In an act of surpassing selfishness and presumptuousness, Smith used a once-in-a-lifetime family celebration to spread her poisonous belief that women’s rights depend on their ability to have their...

Jun 08, 20217 min

PODCAST: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Must Go

Outrageous Tweet ‘o’ the Month is this from Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel on June 2, 2021, in honor of “pride” month: @GOP is proud to have doubled our LGBTQ support over the last 4 years, and we will continue to grow our big tent by supporting measures that promote fairness and balance protections for LGBTQ Americans and those with deeply religious beliefs. Let’s break that down into all its troubling pieces for a close analysis that should reveal why McDaniels must step do...

Jun 07, 20215 min

PODCAST: A Twofer for Springfield Democrats–Genuflect to LGBTQ Community and Ruin Economy

The Illinois General Assembly just passed SB1730, which will require that “public corporations … report the self-identified sexual orientation and self-identified gender identity of its directors.” If Governor J.B. Pritzker signs this bill into law, any publicly held domestic or foreign corporation with its “principal executive office in Illinois” will be required to submit an annual report to the secretary of state that includes the homoerotic predilections and “trans”-cultic practices of membe...

Jun 04, 20214 min

PODCAST: Dumb Things Dems Said in Sex Ed Floor Debate

Don’t let the word “debate” in the term “floor debate” fool you. Floor debates in Springfield are no more debates than transwomen are women. There is no cross-examination or rebuttal, for which most of our lawmakers must be deeply thankful in that they couldn’t argue their way out of an imaginary paper bag—at least not using logic and evidence. Floor debates in Springfield are just occasions for bill sponsors and supporters—almost always Democrats—to pontificate and for opponents to try to point...

Jun 01, 202116 min

PODCAST: Are ALL Gender Stereotypes Bad?

The homosexual, flamboyantly faux-feminine, HIV-positive actor Billy Porter , known for his farcical, LOOK-AT-ME female gowns, will play Cinderella’s fairy godmother called Fab G in the upcoming live action movie to be released exclusively on Jeff Bezos ’ Amazon Prime Video. The movie’s writer claims Fab G “transcends mundane human labels,” and, in what passes for profound in Hollywood, Porter proclaims “magic has no gender.” Maybe “magic” has no gender, but humans have a sex. Sexed humans are d...

May 27, 20217 min

PODCAST: Suburban High School Principal Politicizes and Ruins Graduation

This past Saturday May 22,2021, the retiring principal of Glenbard South High School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois decided to ruin the graduation ceremony of seniors by using it to express her political views. Principal Sandra Coughlin led the families and students in the Pledge of Allegiance but notably omitted the words “of the United States of America” and “under God,” generating audible outrage from the attendees and creating division in what should have been a time of unity and joy. My finely hon...

May 23, 20214 min

PODCAST: Critical Race Theory Finds a Home at Wheaton College

It’s a curious phenomenon that racists rarely see their own racism—the plank in their own eyes. That was true during the long, torturous days of slavery. It was true during the long torturous days of Jim Crow laws. It was true during the Civil Rights era. And it’s true now. No, it’s not conservatives who are spreading racism while remaining blithely blind to it. It’s Ta-Nehisi Coates , Robin DiAngelo , Nikole Hannah-Jones , and BLM who are spreading racism like manure throughout our cultural sys...

May 14, 202112 min

PODCAST: Systemic Racism of Progressives

The dust that racist bullies tried to kick in the face of the honorable U.S. Senator Tim Scott for his crime of delivering a far superior speech in response to Biden’s lackluster recitation before a sparsely attended joint session of Congress has not quite settled. In addition to delivering a poignant, inspiring speech, Sen. Scott committed the crime of rejecting the dogma spewed by leftists who detest tolerance, inclusivity, and free-thinking—especially from blacks whom they desperately need to...

May 07, 20218 min

PODCAST: Illinois Democrats Seek the Abolition of Sex-Segregated Bathrooms

The compulsory sexual integration of private spaces here in the Land of Degeneracy Lincoln continues apace, aided and abetted by rich men with perverse sexual fetishes, academicians with disordered sexual desires, and unprincipled, ignorant Democrat Lawmakers. Two months ago, I first warned about a screwball amendment ( HB 3195 ) to the “Equitable Restrooms Act,” which has now been passed by the muck-making bureaucracy we call the Illinois House of Representatives by a vote of 63-43 and is now b...

Apr 30, 20218 min

PODCAST: Book Banning Propaganda and Shaming in Government Schools and Society

While claiming allegiance to “openness,” “diversity,” “inclusivity,” “tolerance,” and “safety,” public schools now ban books, censor ideas, criticize moral and theological beliefs, promote disordered sexuality and anti-white racism, expose students to obscene material, prohibit correct pronoun usage, sexually integrate private spaces, and create criteria for determining “appropriateness” that conveniently allow any material leftists love. It’s a rigged system designed to make conservative kids f...

Apr 27, 20217 min

Illinois Lawmakers to Give Bureaucrats More Power Over ALL Schools During Health Crises?

Leftists here in Illinois have been heeding the opportunistic control freak Rahm Emanuel’s instruction: You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. Most Illinoisans going about their business, working hard and raising children, have heard nothing about the power grab underway right now by leftist swamp creatures in Springfield. As citizens continue to battle governmental authorities—both elected and unele...

Apr 26, 20215 min

PODCAST: Christians Who Undermine Their Christian Witness

A comment from Tish Harrison Warren writing in and for the increasingly disappointing Christianity Today on Jan. 7, 2021 merits revisiting now that the damage Donald Trump voters predicted if Joe Biden were elected is becoming a reality. Warren wrote, The responsibility of yesterday’s violence must be in part laid at the feet of those evangelical leaders who ushered in and applauded Trump’s presidency. It can also sadly be laid at the feet of the white American church more broadly. So, should re...

Apr 23, 20219 min

PODCAST: Governor Pritzker’s Recommendations for Transing All Government Schools

In June 2019, Governor J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order that should have been the proverbial straw that broke the backs of already oppressed conservative families with children remaining in our broken school indoctrination centers. The order had two parts. The first part mandated the establishment of a “trans” task force whose members “have experience or expertise related to supporting transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students in schools,” and who would concoct the many an...

Apr 22, 202116 min

PODCAST: Is This the Worst School Board in Illinois?

Illinoisans have no dearth of reasons to remove their children from our government faux-education camps that are called “schools” in Newspeak. Leftists control teachers’ unions, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the fetid Springfield Swamp from which have emerged laws mandating that 5-year-old children must be introduced to positive ideas about and images of sexual perversity. And leftists control many local school boards. What’s more, leftists sitting on school boards want nothing less...

Apr 16, 202115 min

PODCAST: A Plea to Exit Public Schools ASAP

While claiming they don’t believe homoerotic attraction is biologically determined, far too many conservatives act as if they do so believe. If conservatives really disbelieved the assertion by leftists that homoerotic attraction is biologically determined, they—that is, conservatives—would be far more vigorously opposed to their children being “educated” in public schools. If conservatives really believed that a child’s environment can contribute to the development of homoerotic attraction (and...

Apr 14, 20217 min

PODCAST: Asa Hutchinson Sells Out Gender-Dysphoric Children

We learned this week that the love of money is the root of all evil. Well, we learned that in Scripture . This week purportedly conservative Christian governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson just reminded us of it when he sold out children to corporate interests. For those still basking blithely in the afterglow of America’s once shining light or are socially distancing under a rock, the Arkansas legislature sent a bill to Hutchinson that would prohibit doctors from the risky and experimental use of...

Apr 09, 202112 min

PODCAST: States with Racist Jim Crow Voter Suppression Laws

I (and likely millions of other Americans) were surprised to learn from the racism sleuths among us that Georgia recently enacted a Jim Crow voter suppression law the likes of which America has never seen. In light of that disturbing revelation, I wondered if there were any other states with such laws and was even more surprised to discover that from sea to shining sea, America is riddled with Jim Crow laws. There are so many Jim Crow voter suppression laws in so many states that I don’t have ti...

Apr 07, 202111 min

PODCAST: Butchering Bodies of Suffering Young People

To be clear from the outset of this article, when I refer to the evil of “trans”-cultism, I am referring to its beliefs and practices—not to people suffering from gender dysphoria or confused by the cultural lies they encounter daily. Everyone is harmed by “trans”-cultic beliefs and practices—girls, women, boys, and men. Those in bondage to the cult and those outside of the cult are harmed. Adults in bondage to confusion and sexual fetishes are eradicating all sex-segregated private spaces; unde...

Apr 01, 202110 min

PODCAST: IL Congressional Rep. Newman’s Dumb Plea for Equality Act

How can someone as ignorant and manipulative as U.S. Representative Marie Newman get elected to Congress? Oh, yeah, she ran in Illinois, the land that once gave the nation Abe Lincoln but now saddles the nation with Dick Durbin , Tammy Duckworth , Jan Schakowsky , Sean Casten , and Brad Schneider . On March 17, Newman spoke in a U.S. Senate hearing in support of the execrable Equality Act, which has nothing to do with Equality and everything to do with advancing an alchemical superstition about ...

Mar 30, 202113 min

PODCAST: Wokeness at Wheaton

Wheaton College is really woking up. The administration has removed a plaque honoring Wheaton alumni and missionaries Jim Elliot and Ed McCully because it described as “savage” the indigenous Ecuadorian tribe that brutally and without cause speared Elliot, McCully, and three other missionaries to death in 1954. The plaque, which was donated 64 years ago by Wheaton classmates of Elliot and McCully, read: For generations all strangers were killed by these savage Indians. After many days of patient...

Mar 25, 202111 min

PODCAST: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Disappoints on Trans Law

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has revealed multiple times that she lacks both wisdom and courage when it come to the issue of cross-sex impersonation. She just vetoed a bill (HB 1217) that would have required participation in school athletics at all levels to correspond to objective, immutable biological sex rather than immaterial, subjective feelings about “maleness” and “femaleness.” In so doing, she failed girls, disappointed conservatives, and reneged on her enthusiastic and public commi...

Mar 22, 20217 min

PODCAST: Jan Schakowsky Wants Americans to Fund the Killing of Babies of Color Everywhere

Jan Schakowsky , the U.S. Representative from Evanston, Illinois, diminutive in intellectual and moral stature, has sponsored a bill to repeal the Helms Act. Her bill, H.R.1670 , is titled “Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act,” and if passed, would open the floodgates of American money to fund abortions overseas. According to the liberal Guttmacher Institute, the repeal of this act will result in an additional 19 million babies slaughtered every year, mostly black and brown babies. If the Gut...

Mar 18, 20217 min

PODCAST: CNN’s Bible Expert Don Lemon Opines Again

Remember when CNN’s homosexual “journalist” Don Lemon said, “Here’s the thing, Jesus Christ—if … you believe in Jesus Christ—admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this Earth”? Apparently, Lemon forgot these verses about Jesus: For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. For we do not...

Mar 16, 20216 min

PODCAST: Another Woke Education Law Just Signed by Gov. Pritzker

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings to hardworking Illinoisans—which, by definition, excludes members of the Chicago Teachers’ Union—but there’s more news on the education front. Lefty swamp creatures in Springfield wallowing in their own presumptuousness and power have yet more changes in store for the unfortunate Illinois school children who haven’t yet been freed from the re-education camps that self-identify as schools. The newest offenses from Springfield are buried in the thousands of w...

Mar 15, 202112 min
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