She authored a news letter, hosted a radio program, and appeared in countless television and newspaper interviews on a wide range op topics – her fierce opposition to abortion rights, her support of the military, her anger at the U.S. Supreme Court. Barry Goldwater’s bid for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination. She single-handedly made “stay at home mom” an acceptable lifestyle for educated women, after feminists had demonized it in the late 60s and 70s. Her job included testing ammunition by firing machine guns. She later received her J.D. from Washington University Law School, and received a Master’s degree in Political Science from Harvard University. A year ago she called on state governors to “refuse to enforce” the Supreme Court’s verdict on marriage equality, and challenged the view that LGBT equality is an inevitable part of progress. Though how the American public would have known that she stayed home I can not imagine.
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She was famously known as “the first lady of anti-feminism”, Schlafly rose to national attention in 1964 with her self-published book, “A Choice Not an Echo”, that became a manifesto for the far right. Schlafly held a grand celebration following her victory.
We are deeply saddened by the death of Phyllis Schlafly. The pair raised four boys and two girls, every one of whom subsequently enjoyed a successful career in academia, medicine, business, or law.
Phyllis Schlafly, a reactionary whose views are the foundation for some of the modern principles the Republican party utilizes, died on Monday at the age of 92. He declined, but she ran and narrowly lost in a predominantly Democratic district.
Mrs Schlafly was a strong advocate of traditional family values and one of her crowning political victories was helping to stop the Equal Rights Amendment [ERA] from being added to the US Constitution. Schlafly was active in politics for more than one quarter of all American history and has been at the center of almost every political battle since 1945.
Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in 1972, a pro-family conservative group focusing heavily on social issues – it has about 80,000 members, CBS News reported. When the ERA’s ratification deadline expired in 1982, having been approved by only 35 of the 38 states needed, Schlafly threw a party in Washington.
She graduated from Washington University in 1944, when she was 19.
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I wrote that review when Schlafly was 81.
