Mrs Schlafly’s death, in St Louis, was announced by the Eagle Forum, a conservative group she founded in 1972.
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An outspoken anti-feminist, Schlafly was an advocate of conservative causes and an early supporter of the modern religious right.
Her death was confirmed by the Eagle Forum, the conservative group she founded.
“A Choice Not an Echo”, her self-published book that sold three million copies, became a manifesto for the pro-life right chronicled the history of the Republican National Convention. Barry Goldwater earn the 1964 GOP nomination, according to her biography on Eagle Forum. She is survived by six children, along with 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkinstold LifeNews that “Phyllis Schlafly will be remembered for her courageous leadership in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds”.
Along the way, Schlafly helped lay the groundwork for a grassroots conservative movement that grew in opposition to the cultural changes of the 1960s and came into its own with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, mobilizing many thousands of volunteers.
Her life made a difference, as the Liberals are given to saying, damn! “Phyllis spent her long life fighting for our American culture that she saw too often under assault by globalists”, Ed Martin, her handpicked successor as president of Eagle Forum, explained to me. The Washington Post reports that within the pages of the book, Phyllis Schlafly and her co-authors explain why The Donald is the right person for the presidency. “She recognized America as the greatest political embodiment of those values”, the statement read. “Her passing is a loss to us all”.
In recent years, Schlafly’s focus turned to what she perceived to be lost US sovereignty as a result of runaway internationalism. In addition to her 1952 Congressional run, she ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women.
During the 1970s, Schlafly – an attorney by training – did everything possible to halt the Equal Rights Amendment, which sought to guarantee equal rights for women and was approved by Congress, although it was never ratified.
Then, a best-selling book author, a political candidate, and a radio/TV personality.
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Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly died Monday at age 92. She also argued that it would lead to same-sex marriage and government funding for abortions, both of which she fiercely opposed, despite having a gay son. Phyllis Stewart graduated as class valedictorian and won a full scholarship to a Catholic women’s college, but she decided that the place was not academically rigorous enough for her and transferred after her first year to Washington University.
