She died among family at her home in St. Louis, Mo., according to the Eagle Forum, a conservative organization that Schlafly founded in 1972.
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Phyllis Schlafly is why we don’t have an Equal Rights Amendment today.
She later helped lead efforts to defeat the proposed constitutional amendment that would have outlawed gender discrimination, galvanizing the party’s right.
Shortly after Schlafly’s death became known, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sent her family his condolences. Her strong opposition to communism, abortion, feminism and an overall focus on the nuclear family, made her a darling of the emerging conservative movement.
Schlafly’s love of Trump was hardly surprising: For decades, she has fought to build a Republican Party that rejects immigrants, stirs up fears of communists (and now Muslims), condemns “globalism”, eschews “political correctness”, and does it all with the veneer of protecting the “traditional family”.
Schlafly argued that an ERA would harm American housewives, warning that it would make it more hard for mothers to obtain custody in divorce cases and that it would do away with alimony and child support requirements, the report continued.
Former US Vice-Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, said: “She went down swinging!”
“They were never able to show women would get any benefit out of it”, she told the AP in 2007. We honor Phyllis for the lessons that she taught us all.
In 1964, Schlafly released a book A Choice, Not an Echo which sold over 3 million copies. He later had a chance to develop a personal friendship with her.
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PENNY YOUNG NANCE: She was groundbreaking in her own way, in a way I think feminists didn’t like but was important for conservative women. “And there is no one even close to replacing her. God bless you Phyllis, for changing the world!” Interviewers from Tim Russert to Bill Maher questioned how she, the mother of a gay man, could be so staunchly opposed to LGBTQ rights, a question she typically sidestepped with a looks-could-kill glare and a retreat to privacy. Although much maligned by feminists, gays and other elements of the progressive coalition, she was a powerful force in American politics, and she leaves a big hole to be filled on the American Right. “Phyllis’ passion and effectiveness will certainly be missed, but her legacy will endure for generations to come”.
