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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Phyllis Schlafly, a homophobic, anti-feminist campaigner who was prominent in the Christian conservative movement, has died at the age of 92.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins was also among the very first to respond to Schlafly’s passing.
One of Schlafly’s books, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know-and Men Can’t Say, was published with her niece Suzanne Venker in 2011, bringing her back into the limelight right in time for a new generation of web-savvy feminists to hate-read her work. The book helped push the Republican party to the right and helped Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater earn the 1964 GOP nomination.
“Schlafly’s contributions to the conservative movement are in part responsible to its rise in US politics and evangelicalism over the past few decades, and she was remembered by conservatives online”.
“Phyllis Schlafly is a conservative icon who led millions to action, reshaped the conservative movement, and fearlessly battled globalism and the “kingmakers” on behalf of America’s workers and families”, the statement read.
Schlafly was one of the earliest pro-life advocates after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationally in 1973, and she battled in the trenches every four years to make sure the pro-life platform plank wasn’t discarded or watered down at Republican national conventions.
Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly passed away one day before her the release of her last book, “The Conservative Case for Trump”.
“Phyllis Schlafly was a courageous and articulate voice for common sense and traditional values”.
Phyllis Stewart was born August 15, 1924, in St. Louis and grew up in a home she described as Republican but not activist. Throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century, Schlafly was involved in conservative politics. Her job included testing ammunition by firing machine guns.
She was disappointed that “the Republican Party, the conservative movement, even the Democratic Party and the churches” hadn’t done more to stop the freedom to marry.
“The whole notion that the church has somehow made women second-class or discriminated against them is contrary to history, contrary to fact and contrary to the beliefs of the overwhelming majority of Catholics, ” she said.
She graduated from Washington University in 1944, when she was 19. She never gave an inch when it came to defending principle.
She called the Forum “the alternative to women’s lib”, and told American women they should focus on being “full-time homemakers”. He declined, but she ran and narrowly lost in a predominantly Democratic district.
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Schlafly received a law degree in 1978, and raised six children. In 2008 Washington University/St. Louis awarded Phyllis an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
