Phyllis Schlafly today died in her home in St. Louis, MO with family present Eagle Forum, the organization she founded in 1972, confirmed.
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The Eagle Forum announced her death in a statement Monday. Schlafly died on Monday at age 92.
Schlafly first gained widespread notoriety through her book, “A Choice, Not an Echo”, a call to arms for conservatives and an argument for the 1964 Republican candidacy of Barry Goldwater.
Born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart on August 15, 1924, Schlafly paid her way through Washington University by working a full-time defense job during the World War II.
Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative icon and one of the most influential pro-family activists in the 1980s and 1990s, has died at 92 from cancer.
She was proceeded in death by her husband, Fred and survived by six children, 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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”. “She recognized America as the greatest political embodiment of those values”, the statement from the Eagle Forum read, according to CNN.
The ERA had passed both houses of Congress, and 28 of the 38 states needed to ratify the constitutional amendment were onboard when Schlafly launched her “STOP ERA” movement.
“Few others could hope to match her tenacity, wit and devotion to the conservative movement”.
Funeral arrangements were still pending, the group said. That is not because she ever held a grudge (she didn’t), but because she has been right virtually every time, often years ahead of everyone else. She rose to prominence as a leader of the conservative movement in the 1970’s.
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. 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. Schlafly’s net worth has increased considerable in 2016. She never gave an inch when it came to defending principle.
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Citing Schlafly’s views about homosexuals, women and immigrants – she was an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, abortion rights and loosening US border restrictions – protesters said she went against the most fundamental principles for which the university stood.
