The funeral Mass is 2 p.m. Saturday at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in the Central West End. Details about the cause of her death were not given, but it was known that she had been sick in recent times. But the amendment lost steam in the late 1970s under pressure from Schlafly’s volunteer brigades – mainly women, majority churchgoing Christians (Schlafly was Roman Catholic) and not a few of them lugging apple pies to cajole legislators. In 1989, she began hosting a weekly radio talk show, “Eagle Forum Live”. The Telegraph has regularly published the former Alton resident’s Eagle Forum-based columns for years and was among the approximately 100 USA media publications that published her columns. She was also the founder of the National Republican Coalition for Life.
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Trump has posted several tweets lamenting the loss of Schlafly, including one referencing a pro-Trump book she co-authored that was released one day after her death.
Just as she had once backed Pat Buchanan’s insurgency, so this year she supported Donald Trump for president – dividing her own organization over the opposition of her own daughter.
She also wrote landmark books on family values, national security, history and education, while lobbying for her strongly held and correct stances to the highest levels of our government.
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On the left, Betty Friedan, the feminist leader and author, compared her to a religious heretic, telling her in a debate that she should burn at the stake for opposing the equal rights amendment. In 2011 she spoke out for “shotgun marriages” as the solution to unwanted pregnancies. Many supporters of the law are still trying to revive it and Schlafly was sure to fight against the bill.
