IFI鈥檚 Laurie Higgins Goes Off the Deep End, Again
So you thought McDonald鈥檚 was a huge fast-food restaurant chain making huge profits and reaping some criticism in the process over the healthiness of its food?
Well, think again. The company whose 31,000 outlets serve nearly 47 million people a day actually is a full-fledged font of evil. It is 鈥渉ell bent on using its resources to promote subversive moral, social, and political views about homosexuality to our children.鈥 It 鈥渉oists high the rainbow colors of the homosexual movement that points to the substitution of the worship of man for the worship of God and leads to depravity and destruction.鈥 McDonald鈥檚, in a phrase, 鈥減romot[es] the homosexual agenda.鈥
Or so says Laurie Higgins, the slightly mad director of the 鈥淒ivision of School Advocacy鈥 at the Illinois Family Institute, a . McDonald鈥檚, the intrepid Higgins insisted in a furious issued last Friday and entitled 鈥淢cDonald鈥檚 Promotes Homosexuality, Again,鈥 鈥渉as once again revealed it true colors.鈥
And what鈥檚 all the fuss about? Ms. Higgins, you see, is mad, really, really mad, because McDonald鈥檚 is airing an ad in France, entitled 鈥淐ome as you are,鈥 that depicts a teenage boy talking to his boyfriend on a cell phone at the restaurant. The whole scene is just, well, a little too normal-looking for the 鈥渟chool advocate.鈥
鈥淸P]lease,鈥 Higgins implores, 鈥渄o not use your resources to support McDonald鈥檚.鈥
Of course, this is Laurie Higgins speaking 鈥 the same woman who, in one of her rabid weekly rants, about President Obama鈥檚 鈥渃ommitment to radical, subversive change.鈥 In a white-hot lather over Obama鈥檚 proclamation of June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, Higgins raged about the proclamation, fulminated about Obama鈥檚 signing of the 2009 federal hate crimes bill 鈥 a statute that many religious-right leaders falsely claim could lead to pastors being jailed for merely condemning homosexuality as unbiblical 鈥 and concluded angrily that the president is 鈥渋mplicitly 鈥 embrac[ing] heresy.鈥
The likes of Laurie Higgins may well be on the wane. This February, Jim Daly took over the long-time gay-bashing powerhouse Focus on the Family after Focus鈥檚 hard-line founder James Dobson, 74, left to host a radio show. Daly immediately began showing signs of moderation, meeting with gay activists, suggesting that Obama was a good role model for black fathers, ending the ministry鈥檚 highly controversial 鈥渞eparative therapy鈥 for gays and lesbians, and, horror of horrors, suggesting that even if gay marriage is widely legalized the world will survive. 鈥淚 will continue to defend traditional marriage,鈥 Daly said in an April with AOL鈥檚 Andrea Stone, 鈥渂ut I鈥檓 not going to demean human beings for the process.鈥
This doesn鈥檛 make Laurie Higgins too happy. She thinks Daly showed 鈥渟urprising naivete,鈥 she wrote in a Focus on the Family 鈥渂etter figure out how to stop the pro-homosexual juggernaut.鈥 Churches, she says, 鈥渁re adopting emasculated [funny word choice, that!] approaches to the pro-homosexual movement.鈥 Responding to Daly鈥檚 refusal to 鈥渄emean human beings,鈥 Higgins adds: 鈥淭he language employed by Mr. Daly here is the kind of language commonly employed by 鈥 homosexualists.鈥
鈥淪houldn鈥檛 we boldly confront the efforts of homosexualists who are work [sic] feverishly to expose our littlest ones to homosexuality and 鈥榯ransgenderism鈥 in our public schools? How perverse does the behavior that our public schools affirm have to become 鈥 before the church 鈥 will 鈥 confront unproven, corrupt ideas?鈥
Daly, apparently, does not belong to the same school, although Focus on the Family remains a highly conservative organization. 鈥淚 want to express respect for everyone, for all human beings,鈥 he told AOL. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not about being highly confrontational.鈥