Louis native who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founder of the Eagle Forum, passed away at her home Monday at the age of 92. Phyllis Schlafly contended her name juxtaposed with beer and alcoholic beverages would damage her conservative brand’s reputation, but a judge disagreed, KMOX reported. Barry Goldwater, who went on to defeat against Lyndon Johnson, win the 1964 Republican nomination. She put herself through Washington University by firing weapons as an ammunition factory tester and later earned a master’s degree in political science from Radcliffe.
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The Eagle Forum, the conservative, pro-family organization that Schlafly founded in 1972, praised her decades of public service in a statement posted to its website.
Schlafly died of cancer in her St. Louis, Missouri, home surrounded by her family. She is survived by her six children, sixteen grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. She was the first to recognize the importance of social issues in politics, and she gave conservative values a powerful voice when no one else thought it possible. “Funeral arrangements are pending”. Her son, John, received attention in 1992 when it was revealed he was gay. (Phyllis called articles about his sexuality “a deliberate strike at me.”) He worked for his mother and insisted “the family-values movement is not anti-gay”.
She also apparently had some Brock Turner-ish views on campus rape and who the real victims of college sexual assault actually are. I consider myself incredibly blessed to have had the opportunity to know Phyllis and draw strength from her courage and devotion to God and our country. She argued the amendment would mean women in combat roles, same-sex marriage, and taxpayer funding for abortions. She was a delegate to the Republicans’ convention in Cleveland.
Schlafly’s backing of Trump came at some cost, however.
“That she died on the day before our book, The Conservative Case for Trump, was launched shows how much she was committed to Trump’s candidacy, how convinced she was that he would be a conservative president, and that she was fighting for what she believed right until the end”, Decker added.
“Phyllis is the reason the Republican Party is a pro-life party”, said Kristan Hawkins, the President of Students for Life of America. She is the co-author, with George Neumayr, of the New York Times Best-Seller titled “No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom”.
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In April, before the endorsement, her support of Trump caused a split among the Eagle Forum board of directors, some of whom supported Texas Sen.
