x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Laurie"s Chinwags

Illinois Family Institute

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

news & politics christianity

All Episodes

11:16

PODCAST: Taxpayer-Funded Libraries Defend Obscenity...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/10/04

How many times have conservatives heard “progressives” claim that the controversial, obscene material they want taught to children is “age-appropriate”? Now, how many times have your heard conservatives respond by demanding to know specifically what criteria are used to determine “appropriateness”—age or any other kind? How many times have you heard conservatives demand to know specifically who socially constructed the criteria used to determine appropriateness and specifically which teacher

en-US

8:29

PODCAST: Losing Our Religion

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/09/29

Yesterday the Facebook Overlords threw me in the Zuckerland Gulag for 30 days for violating their speech codes by posting this in the comments section of a friend’s Facebook page: … some tr*nnies are able to create very convincing skin costumes (think “Buck Angel”), and it will be much easier for the next generation of tr*nnies who aren’t permitted to go through puberty to do so. But right now most men aren’t able to pass as women. My comment was in response to a post about

en-US

11:13

PODCAST: Benet Academy Losing Christian Identity

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/09/23

Benet Academy, a prestigious and expensive private high school that identifies as Catholic has just capitulated to the cacophonous voices of apostates and heretics in its midst. The drama began several days ago when the school located in the affluent Chicago suburb of Lisle, Illinois rescinded an offer to Amanda Kammes to be the head coach of the girls’ lacrosse team. They rescinded the offer after learning that Kammes, who is a 2001 graduate of Benet, is legally married to a woman, which means she

en-US

8:40

PODCAST: Illinois Dem’s Bill to Punish Texas for...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/09/20

State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) is fighting mad. Why? Because Texas lawmakers had the audacity to pass a law to protect tiny humans with heartbeats from being killed. Cassidy does not believe in states’ rights. Like all other “progressives,” Cassidy is an arrogant totalitarian who believes the entire world must think like her and subsidize the dissemination of her beliefs. And when Cassidy gets mad, she gets even. On September 14, Cassidy filed a bill in response to the Texas

en-US

12:58

PODCAST: Do Christians Regularly Violate the...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/09/15

Many Christians misunderstand the relationship between morality and religion. Many mistakenly believe that morality is the same thing as religion and, therefore, mistakenly believe that they should not advocate for policies that reflect their moral beliefs. But morals and religion are not the same. And since morals and religion are not the same, basing our decisions about public policies, laws, or elections on beliefs that derive from religious convictions does not constitute an unconstitutional

en-US

10:42

PODCAST: Indoctrinating from Cradle to College

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/09/09

Government schools in the cities and suburbs alike are unfit places to educate children. In the past week, school controversies in Illinois and California made national news. First up, there was the story of woke third grade teacher Lauren Crowe from Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois whose social media posts in which she boasts about her “LGBTQ+” classroom indoctrination efforts have split the community. Talking directly to little ones in one TikTok video, she announces that

en-US

14:23

PODCAST: Progressives Say the Darndest Things About...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/09/07

For those who have been enjoying the waning days of summer away from news and social media, basking maskless by a refreshing body of water or hiking with a face as naked as a newborn babe’s in the cool of the wood, here’s what set ablaze the perpetually burning neurons of leftists: Texas banned all abortions performed on small humans whose hearts are beating and made anyone who facilitates the illegal killing of humans with beating hearts open to civil litigation. Sounds reasonable to me, but then

en-US

4:59

PODCAST: What Biden and Never-Trumpers Have Done

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/09/01

Yesterday, Joe Biden proclaimed the evacuation from Afghanistan an “extraordinary success” that was executed exactly the way “the mission was designed.” Meanwhile, the Taliban celebrated this extraordinary success, also known as its humiliation of the most powerful military in history, in the only way tyrannical Muslims know how: through a shocking act of grotesque barbarism that makes civilized people weep—or vomit. They flew a U.S. helicopter from which was dangling a corpse. Read

en-US

6:32

PODCAST: California Teacher Wants Students to Pledge...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/08/30

Remember when homosexuals lied through their teeth saying all they wanted was to be free to do what they wanted in the privacy of their bedrooms? Those were the days, my friend, the gullible thought they’d never end. But they did end, and now we pay the salaries of ditzy leftist propagandists to brazenly do what they do best. The latest example of classroom indoctrination comes from Kristin Pitzen, English teacher in the Newport- Mesa Unified School District in Orange County, California who wants

en-US

8:01

PODCAST: The World Suffers Because of Myopic Leftist...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/08/27

On November 7, 2020, four days after the General Election, a millennial friend who identifies as a Christian and is a devoted disciple of critical race theory and BLM posted this sacrilegious image on her Facebook page: These were the last words of Christ before he died on the cross. The debt mankind owes to God for our sin and rebellion was finished, that is, paid in full, by Christ’s suffering and death. Jesus provided the means—the only means—for man to be reconciled to God. Satan was defeated

en-US

9:21

PODCAST: Science-Y: Fiction on Masking

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/08/26

In their quest to restrict liberty, impose morality, and control culture, leftists who claim fealty to science—including soft, pseudo, semi, and specially selected science—often neglect to share all the science available. From “trans”-cultic practices to faux-comprehensive sex ed to Covid-19, leftists cherry-pick science to justify their abuse of power. With schools opening and COVID surging, leftists who care more about exploiting children for ideological purposes than protecting them are once

en-US

14:17

PODCAST: Hobby Lobby Loses Right to Maintain...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/08/20

An Illinois Appellate Court just ruled that Hobby Lobby violated the Illinois Human Rights Act by refusing to allow a male employee who masquerades as a woman and goes by the name of “Meggan Renee” Sommerville to use the women’s restroom. If this decision is not appealed and overturned, it will mean the end of sex-separated private spaces in all companies in Illinois, including stores and restaurants. Read more……

en-US

7:29

PODCAST: The Disastrous Biden Administration

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/08/18

With the disastrous Fall of Saigon Redux—that is, the Fall of Kabul—and the 2022 midterms fast approaching, it seems a good time for a cursory review of the past seven months of Joe Biden’s ill-fated presidency and of 2020 pre-presidential election discussions. Befuddled Biden and his hapless administration have presided over the epically incompetent exit from Afghanistan, which is resulting in a humanitarian crisis, has left Afghans who helped the United States at risk, has left U.S. military

en-US

6:04

PODCAST: Letter in Daily Herald from D211’s Worst...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/08/12

Last week, the Daily Herald published a remarkably deceptive and disingenuous letter from Kim Cavill, the worst school board member of the District 211 School Board, five of whose members—including Cavill—are being sued by an unjustly fired teacher. In her letter, the controversial sexpert Cavill complains about being unprepared for the enraged and hateful messages she has received since becoming a District 211 board member in 2019… Read more……

en-US

13:01

PODCAST: The Shrinking American Medical Association...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/08/11

Here’s a statistic that may surprise many: It is estimated that less than 17% of U.S. doctors belong to the powerful leftist lobbying group, the American Medical Association (AMA). Remember that figure as you read on about the AMA’s role in promoting critical race theory and sexual anarchy. In May 2021, the AMA issued a press release announcing its 86-page critical race theory-infused “ambitious strategic plan to dismantle structural racism” which acknowledges “that equity work requires recognition

en-US

16:18

PODCAST: The Worst School Board in Illinois Gets Sued

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/07/28

Two administrators and five school board members in District 211, the largest high school district in Illinois, are being sued by Judicial Watch on behalf of a teacher who was fired for expressing criticism of the 2020 BLM/Antifa insurrections that devastated American cities. The defendants are director of human resources, James A. Britton; District 211 superintendent, Lisa A. Small; and board members, Robert J. LeFevre Jr., Anna Klimkowicz, Steven Rosenblum, Edward M. Yung, and the worst of the

en-US

8:27

PODCAST: Porn Star Rightly Kicked Out of Conservative...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/07/23

Many self-identifying Republicans have no understanding of the term “conservatism.” Case in point, the recent kerfuffle that ensued when conservative leaders of the Turning Point USA organization rightfully revoked an invitation to porn star “Brandi Love” to attend the Student Action Summit as a VIP. Love was asked to leave the event intended for high school and college students after attendees found out what she does for a living. To be clear, Love, who self-identifies as “conservative,” is not a

en-US

12:07

PODCAST: The Toxic Spread of Oppression-Obsessed...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/07/20

During the decades-long slumber of conservatives, the woke have been continually hatching plans to abolish America piece by piece, replacing it with woke AmeriKa. Leftist control of culture is now virtually absolute, especially over education. Leftists control university departments of education where they turn impressionable students into revolutionary disciples who sashay into government schools armed with notebooks full of lesson plans and brains full of leftist dogma on race, sexuality, equity,

en-US

6:50

PODCAST: Words for Those Lost in Sexual Darkness

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/07/15

I write often about homosexuality and “trans”-cultism because there are no more serious threats to fundamental speech rights and religious liberty than the efforts to use public education, the law, Big Business, Big Tech, the mainstream news media, and the arts to normalize homosexuality and gender confusion. In addition, individuals and families are being incalculably harmed by the corrosive lies of “LGB” and “T” activism. Parents’ rights to oversee their children’s moral education and medical care

en-US

10:50

PODCAST: Homosexuals AGAIN Admit Their Goal Is to...

Laurie"s Chinwags ·

2021/07/12

Last week, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) released a video on YouTube that has garnered widespread and justifiable condemnation for their admission that “LGBT” activists seek to convert your children. It begins with a smugly delivered introduction by Troy Iwata who says, To those of you out there who are still working against equal rights, we’ve a message for you. By “equal rights,” Iwata evidently means the unilateral right to impose the anarchical sexual beliefs of the “LGBTQ”

en-US

298 results

Similar Podcasts

Boletines RNE

RNE

BBC News

BBC World Service

برامج

مونت كارلو الدولية / MCD

Journal Afrique

RFI

要闻解说

RFI - 法国国际广播电台