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In ‘Mrs. America,’ Cate Blanchett shines as a frigid firebrand Phyllis Schlafly who challenges the feminist movementMelanie McFarland / Salon

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How southern white women drove the GOP to Donald Trump

written by Paul Rosenberg / Salon July 1, 2019

“The Long Southern Strategy,” a new book by political scientists Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, first caught my eye because there’s a long history of denialism surrounding the “Southern strategy.” People sometimes claim that it’s a liberal myth or that it’s ancient history, or that wasn’t the real reason for the Southern realignment in American politics. That denialism has only intensified and grown more significant since the election of Donald Trump.

But Maxwell and Shields’ book turns out to be more than just well-timed, as its subtitle suggests: “How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics.” Rather than simply showing that the Southern strategy was a long-term phenomenon, the book shows that it was a continuously reshaped and evolving strategy, that it was multifaceted — involving gender and religion as crucially as race — and that in remaking the Republican Party and the South, it remade American politics as well. “The Long Southern Strategy” explains this reshaping process remaking better than anything else I’ve read, and does so via a compelling multi-disciplinary combination of history, cultural criticism and social science.

In “The Reactionary Mind” (Salon review here), political theorist Corey Robin argued that conservative politics “speak to and for people who have lost something. It may be a landed estate or the privileges of white skin, the unquestioned authority of a husband or the untrammeled rights of a factory owner.” Conservatives may have balked at Robin’s argument, but “The Long Southern Strategy” convincingly describes the specific combination of such losses on which Republicans have played, and the specific form of conservatism that resulted.

The building blocks aren’t old-fashioned racism, sexism and religious fundamentalism — all have been reshaped into new forms, making new arguments for halting progress and turning back the clock, which is also a part of the book’s story. For example, as co-author Angie Maxwell told me, “Modern sexism describes feelings of resentment and distrust towards feminists and working women. Rather than believing that a woman cannot do a particular job, folks who express Modern sexism resents a woman for wanting to do that job.”

“The Long Southern Strategy” also explains why Donald Trump is not such an anomaly after all, but rather the culmination of where the GOP has been headed for the past 50-plus years. “I gave a series of lectures the year before the election, called ‘The Inevitability of Donald Trump,'” Maxwell told me — but even she thought Trump would make it no further than the Republican nomination. She was concerned, however, about how close the election was going to be, because she had applied “modern sexism measures” to national polling in 2012, and found alarmingly high numbers. “I was worried we were not accounting for that effect,” she said. Perhaps not.

So I thought Maxwell would be a perfect interview subject as the 2020 campaign begins in earnest. It’s an invaluable guide for making sense of what’s about to unfold, as well as how we got here. This transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

First I want to ask about the need to understand the Southern strategy as something long-term and continuing or evolving, not just a one-time event.

In short, with the Southern strategy, the story we tell is that after the Civil Rights Act, first Barry Goldwater and then Richard Nixon really played to white racial angst, and the South flipped to red. But when you start looking at not just the electoral map, but voting trends, the South goes pretty heavily back to Jimmy Carter in 1976. And most Southern politicians don’t change their party IDs during that period of time. You see from archival work and other scholarship how worried the GOP was post-Watergate that the inroads they made in the South they were going to lose. And sure enough, they do.

Now, if they were so adamant on a backlash to civil rights, then why pick Carter? But there this notion that Carter’s one of them — he shares their Southern identity, they understand him, he’s a born-again Christian. So the South kind of goes back [to the Democrats]. Then the Reagan folks in 1980 dropped the Equal Rights Amendment from their platform. This to me is the bridge. In 1980, the Republicans are trying again to win those Southern voters back, because they’ve really based their electoral map on that. They took that fork in the road in the late ’60s, and it’s kind of hard, once you set your strategy, to say, “Oh, let’s just pick a new one.” So they dropped the ERA.

This was a radical thing to do because the Equal Rights Amendment — and second-wave feminism in general — was a completely bipartisan effort. There were legions of Republican women feminists. In fact, they were some of the leaders in the movement. At the 1977 National Women’s Convention, the only national women’s convention we’ve ever had, every living first lady of both parties was there.. All the major congresswomen from both parties were there. What happened then was Phyllis Schlafly’s effort — she had written the book [A Choice, Not An Echo] that kind of inspired Goldwater to run years before — she started an anti-feminism counter rally, also in Houston, and had massive attendance at that, and their slogan was “family values.”

The GOP took notice. Schlafly was hoping it would get her a cabinet position, which it didn’t. But then the Reagan administration polls 40,000 women, an effort headed up by Richard Wirthlin, with Elizabeth Dole, and they classified American women into 64 types. They called them Nancys, Bettys — they give them names —and they realized that there were a whole lot more antifeminists out there than they realized, people who really wanted these traditional gender roles. I call them “antifeminist” because that is what they were calling themselves, a lot of times. Particularly in the South, among white women. And so that move [dropping the ERA] helped Reagan to secure a lot of those Southern white women. And that’s when you actually see people start changing their voter ID....

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Alabama’s new abortion restrictions were signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey. But more has been said recently about the fact that the bill was passed by 25 white men in the state Senate. Media reports have pointed to how this law will disproportionately affect black and poor women.

Only four women currently serve in Alabama’s state Senate. Three voted against the bill, while one abstained.

In response to the Alabama vote, Democratic State Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison comparedmen’s votes on abortion legislation to “a dentist making a decision about heart surgery.”

“That’s why we need more women in office,” Coleman-Madison said.

Across the country, women are underrepresented in legislatures. But the question is: Would voting more women into office necessarily shift the politics of abortion?

Conservative women’s activism

My book, “This Is Our Message,” examines the history of women’s leadership in the modern religious right. When this movement emerged in the late 1970s, women were at the forefront. They helped shape the rhetoric of “family values,” which has included opposition to abortion, feminism and same-sex marriage.

These women’s contributions, however, are often overlooked.

My research shows that in the 1980s, news reports almost always credited conservative men with leading the Christian right. Prominent voices included televangelist Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, who helped found the Moral Majority, a conservative Christian political lobbying group, in 1979.

But women also led the movement. Phyllis Schlafly is best known among these women for her fight against the Equal Rights Amendment, which would have outlawed gender discrimination in any law at the local, state or national level. In the early 1970s, the amendment passed through Congress with bipartisan support. Ratification by the states seemed all but certain.

Opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, led by Phyllis Schlafly, center, white coat, march in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 1977. AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi

Then Schlafly mobilized hundreds of thousands of women against the amendment. They argued that it would make women subject to the military draft and that it would eliminate laws designed to protect women in the workplace and in divorce proceedings. They also raised the possibility of consequences that seemed alarming at the time but are familiar today, including same-sex marriage and gender-neutral public bathrooms.

These women lobbied their representatives, protested in state legislatures and wrote letters to the editors of local and national newspapers. In 1982, the amendment failed, lacking sufficient support from the states.

Schlafly was not the only female leader of the religious right in this era. In the late 1970s, pop singer Anita Bryant galvanized a sweeping backlash against the gay rights movement. When her local Miami-Dade County passed anti-discrimination protections for gay residents in 1977, Bryant led a successful repeal effort. She then lent her celebrity status and experience to similar fights nationwide.

Two years later, Beverly LaHaye founded Concerned Women for America, which is now the largest lobbying group in the country representing conservative women. Since its founding, the group has organized millions of women across the country to lobby for socially conservative legislation at the local, state and national levels.

Women have also formed the backbone of socially conservative activism at the grassroots level for over half a century. They have written newsletters from their homes and hosted coffee meetings to mobilize their neighbors. They have organized demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns on issues ranging from school curricula to LGBTQ rights to abortion.

Singer-turned-political-activist Anita Bryant. AP Photo

The abortion debate

Abortion has been a key issue for conservative women since the 1970s, just as it has been for women on the left. For activists on both sides, this is a core women’s issue.

But on each side of the debate, activists rely on fundamentally different assumptions about women and women’s interests.

For pro-life women, abortion is an atrocity that women are especially well suited to address. They argue that women’s maternal instincts make them naturally pro-life. For pro-choice women, abortion access is a basic right that all women must have. They argue that legal abortion is a matter of trusting women and respecting their bodily autonomy.

Many pro-life women believe that women’s voices are necessary to effectively counter the feminist position.

Support for Trump

The female governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, who signed the abortion bill into law, is a conservative evangelical who has been vocal about her hope to limit abortion access in Alabama. She has also said that it is time for the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that decriminalized abortion in the United States.

Ivey is representative of a larger movement of conservative women who passionately oppose abortion. White evangelical women voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016. The issue of abortion played a major role in their choice. At the time, an empty Supreme Court seat was at play, and Trump promised to appoint a pro-life justice.

Concerned Women for America and other conservative women’s groups actively supportedthe nomination of Neil Gorsuch and then Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court justices.

Yet, from my perspective, conservative women are being written out of the story again.

Responding to the passage of the Alabama abortion law, Democratic presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand said: “Donald Trump has declared a war on America’s women. And if it’s a fight he wants to have, it’s a fight he’s going to have, and it’s a fight he’s going to lose.”

Gillibrand’s statement – which fails to acknowledge the role of conservative women in the abortion battle – echoes the rhetoric of the anti-Trump women’s movement. Yet it repeats a pattern of discounting conservative women.

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Phyllis Schlafly: No SCOTUS Nominee 'Until We Have A Republican Who Will Appoint Somebody In The Nature of Scalia'

SUBMITTED BY: Miranda Blue, Tuesday 03/22/2016, 4:39pm

Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-feminist icon and enthusiastic Donald Trump endorser, characteristically abandoned all pretense of nonpartisanship when discussing the Supreme Court vacancy in a recent interview with “Armed America Radio,” saying that Republicans should hold firm in blocking a nominee until a Republican is in the White House. “We need the Republicans to stand firm and say, ‘We’ve got a big election coming up and that should change the complexion of the Supreme Court and we don’t want any new nominee on the court until we have a Republican who... MORE >

Phyllis Schlafly: 'Trump Has Spoken To The Heart Of America'

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Tuesday 03/22/2016, 12:05pm

Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly has been one of Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters, much to the dismay of her fellow Eagle Forum activists who have rallied behind Ted Cruz. One Eagle Forum leader even accused the Trump campaign of manipulating and taking advantage of the 91-year-old Schlafly. However, Schlafly stood by her position in an interview with WorldNetDaily today, even mocking the Cruz campaign’s failure to win support from a plurality of evangelical Republican voters in many of the early primary states: “The amazing thing is, Cruz based his campaign on... MORE >

Eagle Forum's Not-So-Polite Split Over Donald Trump

SUBMITTED BY: Miranda Blue, Monday 03/21/2016, 4:22pm

Phyllis Schlafly, the nonagenarian anti-feminist activist and founder of Eagle Forum, has been singing the praises of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for months and earlier this month finally came out and endorsed Trump onstage at a rally in St. Louis. Schlafly’s endorsement puts her at odds with a number of Eagle Forum’s state-level leaders — including her own daughter, Anne Cori — who endorsed Trump’s rival Ted Cruz in a joint letter in January. Now, one of the Eagle Forum leaders who endorsed Cruz is accusing Trump of... MORE >

More than 50 Conservative Catholics Back Ted Cruz

SUBMITTED BY: Peter Montgomery, Friday 03/18/2016, 3:13pm

The latest announcement in the Ted Cruz presidential campaign’s ongoing rollout of endorsements from right-wing leaders is a group of more than 50 “Catholic influencers” led by Robert George, the intellectual muscle for the Religious Right, and Ken Cuccinelli, former attorney general of Virginia and failed gubernatorial candidate. The campaign announced the endorsement of Robert George yesterday; some others on the list have also been announced previously. Not surprisingly, the list of Catholics for Cruz is heavy on culture warriors who have been fighting to criminalize... MORE >

Far-Right Leader Phyllis Schlafly Endorses Donald Trump

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Friday 03/11/2016, 3:50pm

Today in St. Louis, Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly introduced and endorsed Donald Trump, lauding him as a true conservative who will appoint right-wing judges to the bench and thwart President Obama’s nefarious agenda. Schlafly, a longtime Trump booster, shares Trump’s suspicion of vaccines, international trade and immigration. Most recently, she urged the government to organize “railroad cars full of illegals going south,” predicted that Central American immigrants would spread Ebola throughout the U.S. and called on Major League... MORE >

Phyllis Schlafly Praises Jeff Sessions, Trump & Cruz, Warns GOP 'Kingmakers'

SUBMITTED BY: Peter Montgomery, Monday 02/29/2016, 3:35pm

In her February newsletter,  which came out just after Sen. Jeff Sessions’ endorsement of Donald Trump, Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly reproduced a column she wrote earlier in the month gushing about a round of interviews Sessions had given in which he said 2016 “is the last chance for the American people to take back control of their government.” Sessions helped Trump craft his immigration platform and previously backed his call for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Here’s Schlafly: “To win, Republicans need to demonstrate that they care about... MORE >

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ow did America get to such a place that someone like Donald Trump can command a lead in the Republican primaries? Trump is the product of a deliberate Republican strategy, adopted by Richard Nixon’s people in 1968, to attract voters with an apocalyptic redemption story rather than reasoned argument.  It has taken almost 50 years, but we have finally arrived at the culmination of postmodern politics in which Republican leaders use words to create their own reality.

After World War II, President Dwight Eisenhower and men like New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller led the Republican Party with policies based in reasoned argument. They used the government to regulate the economy and to promote social welfare, much as Democrats did, although with a philosophy that emphasized social unity rather than class conflict. The policies of these “Me Too” Republicans infuriated Movement Conservatives on the far right, who insisted that all government activism was communism. In 1964, Movement Conservative spokesman Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater won the Republican nomination when Rockefeller’s womanizing spectacularly imploded his candidacy. Movement Conservatives used their hero’s nomination to advance a new kind of politics.

America’s moderate consensus was enormously popular, but Phyllis Schlafly,the president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women, flat-out denied that reality. In her famous book “A Choice Not an Echo,” she insisted that studies showing that voters opposed Goldwater’s extremism were part of a “propaganda machine” that used fake polls, radio and newspapers to destroy anyone but the chosen candidates of an elite cabal. She explained that all government activism outside of military buildup was a conspiracy to bankrupt regular Americans. Financiers and banking interests fed off expensive policies pushed by an educated Eastern elite, and together these men were dragging America into the web of communism.

The world was really quite simple, Schlafly insisted, and it could be understood without any fancy education. It was divided in two, black and white, Communism and Freedom. Eggheads complained that Goldwater “had one-sentence solutions” for complicated problems, she wrote, but simple solutions were the answer. What should America do about communism? Stop it! The very fact that establishment Republicans opposed Goldwater’s nomination proved that he was the right man for the job. He was the “grass roots” candidate, the candidate for the little guy who voted his principles, not because he wanted a payoff.

Goldwater’s candidacy crashed and burned, leaving Republicans in trouble in 1968. To candidate Richard Nixon was left the task of pulling together mainstream Eisenhower Republicans and upstart Movement Conservatives. How could his team attract support for an unlikable candidate who needed to bridge a fundamental ideological gulf? Nixon’s handlers used new media to play to Schlafly’s script. They ignored people’s brains and went for their guts.

“Voters are basically lazy,” one Nixon media adviser wrote. “Reason requires a high degree of discipline, of concentration; impression is easier. Reason pushes the viewer back, it assaults him, it demands that he agree or disagree; impression can envelop him, invite him in, without making an intellectual demand…. When we argue with him, we… seek to engage his intellect…. The emotions are more easily roused, closer to the surface, more malleable….” Nixon’s people hired advertising executive Harry Treleaven, who believed the new medium of television had changed the nature of politics. For him, politicians were no longer policy wonks; they were actors with a narrative.

Under Treleaven, Nixon’s people ignored policy positions and instead used television to create a candidate with a simple message: America was on the brink of disaster, and only Nixon could save it. They hired a brilliant young photographer to put together a series of television ads from stock photographs strung together to create a sense of doom; at the end a voice intoned “Nixon” over an iconic image of the nation. At the end of every ad ran the words: “Vote like your whole world depended on it.”

The campaign also hired a young television producer named Roger Ailes to stage “town hall” events for the candidate. Ailes hand-picked “regular” people to question Nixon in carefully managed shows from which the press was excluded. Ailes arranged applause, the set, Nixon’s answers, the camera angles, the crowd cheering the candidate, the careful shading of Nixon’s makeup. “Let’s face it,” he said. “A lot of people think Nixon is dull. Think he’s a bore, a pain in the ass.” But carefully managed television could “make them forget all that.”

It did. And so, after 1968, Republicans increasingly relied on their apocalyptic redemption story. America was in terrible trouble, because grasping minorities, women and workers wanted government policies that would suck tax dollars from hardworking white people. Democrats backed those policies because they would do anything to buy votes. It was up to Republicans to restore America to its former glory. In a time of dramatic economic and social upheaval, this story reassured voters left behind in the new conditions that the answers to their problems were simple, and that coming up with those answers required no great education or thought. It simply required the right principles.

The Movement Conservative story was never based in reality. Facts repeatedly gave way to the narrative that America was on the ropes because of Democratic social welfare policies that sucked tax dollars and threatened the nation’s safety. Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Queen represented the misuse of tax dollars for lazy African-Americans, for example, but he also incorrectly insisted that President Carter had slashed the nation’s military budget, and warned in his inaugural address that the nation was in a crisis that rivaled the Great Depression, a crisis created by government activism.

To avoid niggling fact-checkers, in 1987, President Reagan’s FCC abandoned the Fairness Doctrine,a decision that meant that public broadcasters were no longer required to provide their audience with opposing viewpoints. Within a year, talk radio had taken off, with hosts like Rush Limbaugh hammering home the vision of a nation gone to ruin, awaiting redemption from the latest Movement Conservative candidate. In 1992, Limbaugh began to broadcast a television show, produced by Roger Ailes, to take the story to viewers. By 1994, the show was carried by 225 television stations. Two years later, Ailes would become the CEO of a new media channel, Fox News, which used the same formula—albeit updated—that Ailes had used to package Nixon’s story almost 30 years before.

By the time of the George W. Bush administration, the Movement Conservatives had erased the line between image and reality. In 2004, a senior adviser [WHO?] to Bush famously dismissed “the reality-based community” to journalist Ron Suskind. Gone were the days when politicians could find solutions based on their observations of the careful study of discernible reality. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore…. When we act, we create our own reality…. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do,” he said.

This disregard for fact in favor of narrative appears to have become so accepted in the Republican Party that it is now openly driving Republican presidential candidates. Trump’s celebrity candidacy follows the formula. According to him, America is in free fall, with GDP below zero, unemployment at 18-20 percent, and the country overrun by minorities—his venom reserved primarily for Mexicans who, he says, are drug dealers, criminals and rapists.

“Our enemies are getting stronger and stronger by the day and we as a country are getting weaker.” Politicians can’t “make America great again” because they are “controlled fully by the lobbyists, by the donors, and by the special interests.” Trump promises to be a “great leader” who has simple answers: He will bring back jobs, make sure Iran doesn’t get nuclear weapons, reduce the debt, in short, find a way to do everything fast and well. “Sadly,” he says, “the American dream is dead. But if I get elected president I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before.”

Trump is the most cartoonish of the Republican candidates, but he is far from being the only one to bend reality to image. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a group of Republican donors that British Prime Minister David Cameron had said he had no faith in President Obama’s leadership, a claim Cameron categorically denied. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal insists he has slashed spending 26 percent, a claim professor Robert Mann has eviscerated. Journalist Tom Moran at the Newark Star-Ledger says simply of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, “he lies.”

Perhaps most disturbing is that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Scott Walker and surgeon Ben Carson, Republican candidates all, have taken to attributing false quotations to the Founding Fathers. They deny the reality of America’s founding principles and claim instead that America was conceived in the image that they have constructed, the same image that has given us Donald Trump as a leading candidate for the presidency.

Heather Cox Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at Boston College.

Phyllis Schlafly’s solution to campus rape: Fewer women.

Everyone can stop trying to solve the problem of campus rape. Phyllis Schlafly has a brilliant idea: schools should stop admitting so many women.

Back in the good old days, when the crusading anti-feminist went to college, odds were much better for a gal on the hunt for a date. “Campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970 it was still nearly 60 percent,” Schlafly wrote in her Mondaycolumn for the World Net Daily. “Today, however, the male percentage has fallen to the low 40s on most campuses.”

This tragedy, Schlafly suggests, is causing those outnumbered men to rape women. There are just so darn many of them, why the heck not rape a few? Boys know there are more women than men because they are better at math than girls are. “Boys are more likely than girls to look at the cost-benefit tradeoff of going to college,” Schlafly wrote. “The imbalance of far more women than men at colleges has been a factor in the various sex scandals that have made news in the last couple of years.”

Solution-minded Schlafly suggests imposing, “the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.”

Another way to make sure fewer women (and poor people) go to college: “Stop granting college loans,” she suggested, “thereby forcing students to take jobs to pay for their tuition and eliminate time for parties.”

Another suggestion: Stop enforcing Title IX. Schlafly never much cared for the federal law forbidding discrimination against female students.

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Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly ( /:{ˈ:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{f:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{ɪ:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{l:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{ɪ:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{s:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}: :{ˈ:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{ʃ:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{l:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{æ:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{f:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{l:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}::{i:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}:/; born August 15, 1924) is a politically conservative American activist and constitutional attorney known for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment. Her bestselling book, A Choice, Not An Echo, was published in 1964 from her home in Alton, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from her native St. Louis. Following this self-publication, she formed Pere Marquette Publishers company. A Choice, Not an Echo decries the power of the secret kingmakers and persuaders that once included New York Governors Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson A. Rockefeller. Schlafly supported U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater in his unsuccessful race against President Lyndon B. Johnson. She has co-authored several books on national defense and was highly critical of arms-control agreements with the former Soviet Union.^[2]

Schlafly also maintains an active presence on the lecture circuit. In 1972, she founded the Eagle Forum, and was the founder and president of a sister organization known as the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, which also operates in the Eagle Forum's St. Louis office. As of 2010^[update], she is still the president of both organizations. Since 1967, she has published her own political newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report.

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Recent activities

Schlafly has been an outspoken critic of what she terms "activist judges", particularly on the Supreme Court. In 2005, Schlafly made headlines at a conference for the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration by suggesting that "Congress ought to talk about impeachment" of Justice Anthony Kennedy, citing as specific grounds Justice Kennedy's deciding vote to abolish the death penalty for minors.^[27]

In late 2006, Schlafly collaborated with Jerome Corsi and Howard Phillips to create a website in opposition to the idea of a "North American Union", under which the United States, Mexico, and Canada would share a currency and be integrated in a structure similar to the European Union.^[28]

In April 2010, shortly after John Paul Stevens announced his retirement as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Schlafly called for the appointment of a military veteran to the Court, since Stevens had been a veteran and, with his retirement, the court was "at risk of being left without a single military veteran."^[29]

[edit] Viewpoints

[edit] Opposition to the UN, WTO, and arms control

As a college student in 1945, Schlafly applauded the establishment of the United Nations. Over the years, however, she has long repudiated the UN. On the 50th anniversary of the group in 1995, Schlafly referred to "a cause for mourning, not celebration. It is a monument to foolish hopes, embarrassing compromises, betrayal of our servicemen, and a steady stream of insults to our nation. It is a Trojan Horse that carries the enemy into our midst and lures Americans to ride under alien insignia to fight and die in faraway lands." Accordingly, she opposed U.S. President Bill Clinton's decision in 1996 to send 20,000 American troops to Bosnia. Schlafly noted that Balkan nations have fought one another for 500 years and that the U.S. military should not be "policemen" of world trouble spots.^[30]

In 1961 she wrote that arms control "will not stop Red aggression any more than disarming our local police will stop murder, theft, and rape."^[31]

Prior to the 1994 congressional elections, Schlafly condemned globalization through the World Trade Organization as a "direct attack on American sovereignty, independence, jobs, and economy . . . any country that must change its laws to obey rulings of a world organization has sacrificed its sovereignty."^[32]

[edit] Politics

Schlafly continues to exert some influence within the Republican Party. She played a key role in writing some socially conservative language in the Republican National Convention's platform, most recently in 2004.

However, Schlafly has expressed dissatisfaction with the modern GOP. Though she has not been actively involved in the neoconservative/paleoconservative schism, her positions on many issues resemble those of a paleoconservative. Like Patrick J. Buchanan, whom she supported for the 1996 GOP nomination, she contends that President George W. Bush

"has muddied up the meaning of conservative." Schlafly writes, "Bush ran as a conservative, but he has been steadily (some might say stealthily) trying to remold the conservative movement and the Republican Party into the Bush Party. And the Bush Party stands for so many things alien to conservatism, namely, war as an instrument of foreign policy, nation-building overseas, highly concentrated executive power, federal control of education, big increases in social entitlements, massive increases in legal and illegal immigration, forcing American workers to compete with low-wage foreigners (under deceptive enticements such as free trade and global economy), and subordinating U.S. sovereignty to a North American community with open borders."

However, despite such criticisms, the Eagle Forum defended the Party before the 2006 elections: "We cannot let our dissatisfaction and disappointment with some members of the Republican Party keep us from voting for the good guys — the ones who really are leaders for the conservative cause."^[33]

Schlafly did not endorse a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, but she has spoken out against Mike Huckabee, whom she says as governor left the Republican Party in Arkansas "in shambles". She has hosted at the Eagle Forum U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, known for his opposition to illegal immigration. Before his election she criticised Barack Obama as "an elitist who worked with words".^[34]

[edit] Women's issues

Main article: Phyllis Schlafly's social policies

Schlafly told Time magazine in 1978, "I have cancelled speeches whenever my husband thought that I had been away from home too much."^[35] She also said, at a March 2007 speech at Bates College, "By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape."^[36] On March 30, 2006, Schlafly provided an interview for The New York Times in which she attributed improvement in women's lives during the last decades of the 20th century to labor-saving devices such as the indoor clothes dryer and paper diapers.^[37] She has called Roe vs Wade "the worst decision in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court" and said that it "is responsible for the killing of millions of unborn babies".^[38]

[edit] LGBT rights

Further information: LGBT rights in the United States

Schlafly opposes same-sex marriage or civil unions, stating "[a]ttacks on the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman come from the gay lobby seeking social recognition of their lifestyle."^[39] Linking the Equal Rights Amendment to LGBT rights and same-sex marriage played a role in Schlafly's opposition to the ERA.^[40][41]

[edit] Honorary degree and protests

On May 1, 2008, the Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis announced that Schlafly would be presented an honorary degree at the school's 2008 commencement ceremony. This was immediately met with objection by some students and faculty at the university who accused her of being anti-feminist and criticized her work on defeating the equal rights amendment.^[42] Fourteen university law professors wrote in a complaint letter that Schlafly's career demonstrated "anti-intellectualism in pursuit of a political agenda."^[43] While the Board of Trustees' honorary degree committee approved the honorees unanimously, five student members of the committee wrote to complain that they had to vote on the five honorees as a slate, in the final stage of the voting and feel the selection of Schlafly was a mistake.^[44][45] Katha Pollitt of The Nation magazine criticized the decision, decrying Schlafly as a "promoter of innumerable crackpot far-right conspiracy theories" and an opponent of women's rights.^[46]

In the days leading up to the commencement ceremony, Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton explained the university’s Board of Trustees' decision to award Schlafly’s degree with the following statement:

At the May 16, 2008, commencement ceremony, Schlafly was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. A protest to rescind Schlafly's honorary degree received support from faculty and students. During the ceremony, hundreds of the 14,000 attendees, including one third of the graduating students and some faculty, silently stood and turned their backs to Schlafly in protest.^{[44][dead link]} In the days leading up to the commencement there were several protests regarding her degree award; Schlafly described these protesters as, "a bunch of losers."^[48] In addition, she stated after the ceremony that the protesters were "juvenile" and that, "I'm not sure they're mature enough to graduate."^{[dead link]} As planned, Schlafly did not give any speech during the commencement ceremony, nor did any of the other honorees except for commencement speaker Chris Matthews.^[49]

[edit] Bibliography

Schlafly is the author of 21 books on subjects ranging from child care to phonics education. She currently writes a weekly syndicated column that appears in over one hundred newspapers.^[50]

Schlafly's published works include:

• Judicial Tyranny: The New Kings of America? - contributing author (Amerisearch, 2005) ISBN 0-9753455-6-7
• The Supremacists: The Tyranny Of Judges And How To Stop It (Spence Publishing Company, 2004) ISBN 1-890626-55-4
• Feminist Fantasies, foreword by Ann Coulter (Spence Publishing Company, 2003) ISBN 1-890626-46-5
• Turbo Reader (Pere Marquette Press, 2001) ISBN 0-934640-16-5
• First Reader (Pere Marquette Press, 1994) ISBN 0-934640-24-6
• Pornography's Victims (Crossway Books, 1987) ISBN 0-89107-423-6
• Child Abuse in the Classroom (Crossway Books, 1984) ISBN 0-89107-365-5
• Equal Pay for UNequal Work (Eagle Forum, 1984) ISBN 99950-3-143-4
• The End of an Era (Regnery Publishing, 1982) ISBN 0-89526-659-8
• The Power of the Christian Woman (Standard Pub, 1981) ISBN B0006E4X12
• The Power of the Positive Woman (Crown Pub, 1977) ISBN 0-87000-373-9
• Ambush at Vladivostok, with Chester Ward (Pere Marquette Press, 1976) ISBN 0-934640-00-9
• Kissinger on the Couch (Arlington House Publishers, 1974) ISBN 0-87000-216-3
• Mindszenty the Man (with Josef Vecsey) (Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation, 1972) ISBN B00005WGD6
• The Betrayers (Pere Marquette Press, 1968) ISBN B0006CY0CQ
• Safe Not Sorry (Pere Marquette Press, 1967) ISBN 0-934640-06-8
• Strike From Space: A Megadeath Mystery (Pere Marquette Press, 1965) ISBN 80-7507-634-6
• Grave Diggers (with Chester Ward) (Pere Marquette Press, 1964) ISBN 0-934640-03-3
• A Choice Not An Echo (Pere Marquette Press, 1964) ISBN 0-686-11486-8

[edit] See also

• Phyllis Schlafly's social policies

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Phyllis Schlafly". UXL Newsmakers (FindArticles.com). 2005. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5221/is_2005/ai_n19140122/print?tag=artBody;col1. Retrieved 2008-08-09. 
2. ^ Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. Right–Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press, p. 202.
3. ^ profile of Andrew F. Stewart, in Men of West Virginia, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago: 1903. pp. 157-158.
4. ^ 1902-03 City Directory, Huntington, WV and 1910 Federal Census (Virginia), Alleghany County, Clifton Forge, ED126, Sheet 9A and note 1.
5. ^ ^a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-Founding_4-0) ^b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-Founding_4-1) ^c(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-Founding_4-2) Critchlow, Donald. "Founding Mother-Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade." Princeton University Press. pp. 422
6. ^ ^a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-autogenerated1_5-0) ^b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-autogenerated1_5-1) Felsenthal biography
7. ^ 1919 Gould’s St. Louis City Directory
8. ^ 1870 Federal Census ( Illinois) Clinton Co. Carlyle, Series: M593 Roll: 196 Page: 265
9. ^ The 1881 History of Marion & Clinton Counties, Illinois
10. ^ Abraham, Yvonne (2004-09-02). "At 80, Schlafly is still a conservative force - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/02/at_80_schlafly_is_still_a_conservative_force/. 
11. ^ The gay vice squad - QW's outing article about homosexuality of John Schlafly, son of pro-life advocate Phyllis Schlafly - Editorial
12. ^ Abraham, Yvonne (2004-09-02). "At 80, Schlafly is still a conservative force - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/02/at_80_schlafly_is_still_a_conservative_force/. 
13. ^ Blumenfeld, Laura (September 19, 1992). "Schlafly's Son, Out of the Closet; Homosexual Backs Mother's Views, Attacks `Screechy Gay Activists'". Washington Post. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/74049997.html?FMT=ABS.:{ }:
14. ^ "Rightwing website challenges 'liberal bias' of Wikipedia". The Guardian. March 1, 2007. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/mar/01/wikipedia.news.:{ }:
15. ^ http://www.schlafly.com/faq.shtml
16. ^ Ehrenreich, pp. 152-153
17. ^ Berlet and Lyons. 2000. Right–Wing Populism in America, pp. 180, 202.
18. ^ Warner, Judith She Changed America, New York Times, 2001-01-29
19. ^ Anti-ERA Evangelist Wins Again; Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism (Princeton University Press, 2005), p. 138-159.
20. ^ Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Firebrand: Phyllis Schlafly and the Conservative Revolution." The New Yorker. Nov 7, 2005. pp. 134.
21. ^ ^a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-autogenerated2_20-0) ^b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-autogenerated2_20-1) Eilperin, Juliet. "New Drive Afoot to Pass Equal Rights Amendment". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032702357_pf.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
22. ^ History
23. ^ Gloria Steinem: If Bush Wins in 2004, "Abortion Will Be Criminalized" - A BuzzFlash Interview
24. ^ Pia de Solenni on Phyllis Schlafly & Feminist Fantasies on National Review Online
25. ^ "Nation: Anti-ERA Evangelist Wins Again". Time. 1978-07-03. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945990-1,00.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
26. ^ [www.luc.edu/wla/pdfs/Homemakers_Equal_Rights_Association.pdf Homemakers Equal Rights Association (HERA) Records, 1971-1984, n.d.] Women & Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago
27. ^ Dana Milbank, "And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty", Washington Post, April 9, 2005, p. A03.
28. ^ Bennett, Drake (2007-11-25). "The amero conspiracy". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/11/25/the_amero_conspiracy/?page=full. Retrieved 2009-02-20. 
29. ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/schlafly--obama-would-be-foolish-to-leave-supreme-court-without-a-veteran-90368884.html
30. ^ Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, 2005, pp. 298-299
31. ^ Phyllis Schlafly, "Communist Master Plan for 1961", Cardinal Mindszenty Newsletter, February 15, 1961
32. ^ Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, 2005, p. 298
33. ^ Eagle Forum (2006-10-27). "Mid-term Elections Are Just Around The Corner". http://www.eagleforum.org/alert/2006/10-24-06.html. Retrieved 2007-03-30. 
34. ^ Sam Leith, "Man of his words" Financial Times January 17–18, 2009
35. ^ "Anti-ERA Evangelist Wins Again". Time. 1978-07-03. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,945990,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 
36. ^ Leonard, J.T. (2007-03-29). "Schlafly cranks up agitation at Bates". Sun Journal. Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20080611135158/http://www.sunjournal.com/story/205234-3/LewistonAuburn/Schlafly_cranks_up_agitation_at_Bates/. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 
37. ^ Bellafante, Ginia (2006-03-30). "A Feminine Mystique All Her Own". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/garden/30phyllis.html?sq=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 
38. ^ The Washington Post. http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/02/nation_schlafly011802.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
39. ^ Schlafly, Phyllis (2009-11). "Feminists Psychoanalyze Themselves Again". The Phyllis Schlafly Report. Eagle Forum. http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2009/nov09/psrnov09.html. Retrieved 2010-11-23. 
40. ^ Schlafly, Phyllis. "A Short History of E.R.A". The Phyllis Schlafly Report. Eagle Forum. http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1986/sept86/psrsep86.html. Retrieved 2010-11-23. 
41. ^ Sachs, Andrea (2009-04-07). "Phyllis Schlafly at 84". Time. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889757,00.html. Retrieved 2010-11-23. 
42. ^ "Wash-U chancellor apologizes for controversy, but Schlafly will still get honorary degree". http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1278560§ionID=1. Retrieved 2008-05-16. 
43. ^ "Phyllis Schlafly Hon. Degree Sparks Wash U Spat, Law Prof Protest". UPI. http://abajournal.com/news/phyllis_schlafly_hon_degree_sparks_wash_u_spat_law_prof_protests//. Retrieved 2008-07-25. 
44. ^ ^a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-UPICommencement_43-0) ^b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#cite_ref-UPICommencement_43-1) "Students, faculty protest Schlafly honor". UPI. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/05/16/students_faculty_protest_schlafly_honor/2016/. Retrieved 2008-05-16. 
45. ^ Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: Wash U Alumni Create Website to Oppose Award of Honorary Degree to Schafly
46. ^ Pollitt, Katha (2008-05-08). "Backlash Spectacular". The nation. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080526/pollitt. Retrieved 2009-02-20. 
47. ^ http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/623432.html "Statement on Phyllis Schlafly's honorary degree". http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11789.html http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/623432.html. Retrieved 2008-05-14. 
48. ^ "Wash-U chancellor apologizes for controversy, but Schlafly will still get honorary degree". http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1278560§ionID=1. 
49. ^ "Students, faculty protest Schlafly at commencement". UPI. http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/623432.html. Retrieved 2008-05-18. ^{[dead link]}
50. ^ Schlafly, Phyllis (2006-08-26). "What is Left? What is Right? Does it Matter?". The American Conservative. http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_08_28/cover.html. Retrieved 2007-03-30. 

[edit] References

• Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade Princeton University Press, 2005. 422 pp. ISBN 0-691-07002-4.
• Ehrenreich, Barbara. 1983. The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment. New York: Anchor Books.
• Felsenthal, Carol. The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly: The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority Doubleday & Co., 1981. 337pp. ISBN 0-89526-873-6.
• Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Firebrand: Phyllis Schlafly and the Conservative Revolution." The New Yorker. Nov 7, 2005. pp. 134.

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Eagle Forum is a conservative interest group in the United States founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1967 and is the parent organization that also includes the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund and the Eagle Forum PAC.^[2] The Eagle Forum has been primarily focused on social issues; it describes itself as pro-family and reports to have a membership around 80,000.^[1][2] Others have described it as socially conservative,^[2] and anti-feminist.^[3][4] As of 2008, Phyllis Schlafly continues to be the president of the organization.^[5]

[edit] History

Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly

In 1967, Phyllis Schlafly launched the Eagle Trust Fund for receiving donations related to conservative causes.^[6] After the 1972 proposal of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Schlafly reorganized her efforts to defeat its ratification, founding the group "Stop ERA"^[7] and starting the Eagle Forum Newsletter. In 1975 Stop ERA was renamed the Eagle Forum.^[7]

The Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund was organized in 1981 as a non-profit wing of Eagle Forum.^[8] It is a tax deductible charity under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) code.^[9]

The Eagle Forum PAC began receiving donations in 1993^[10] and has served as a the source for candidate endorsements from the Eagle Forum and has donated money to various candidates that the organization People for the American Way has described as "right-wing".^[2]

Eagle Forum members have often worked within the Republican Party. The Texas state Eagle Forum chairman, Cathie Adams, for instance, was named Republican national committeewoman from Texas at the state convention in 2008 and then in October 2009 was chosen as interim chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.

[edit] Activities and positions

See also: Phyllis Schlafly's social policies

The Eagle Forum is involved primarily in conservative issues. The organization is pro-life, against international oversight from the United Nations or the International Criminal Court, supporting of English-only education in schools, supporting of women's role as "fulltime homemakers"^[11], and in opposition to same-sex marriage.^[12] Circa 2006, Eagle Forum began preparations to fight the introduction of the amero Northern American currency. They support those saying Christopher Columbus is a hero. It has also been active in the anti-vaccination movement, particularly fighting mandatory hepatitis B vaccination requirements for newborn babies,^[13] and opposition to sex education in the public school system.^[14][2] On its website, the Eagle Forum publishes a weekly column written by Phyllis Schlafly.^[15] Eagle Forum also opposes movements which would call for an Article V constitutional convention, stating that (based on the opinions of noted constitutional scholars such as former United States Supreme Court Justice Warren Berger) such a "con con" (its terminology) could not be limited in scope, and thus could draft a whole new Constitution which might be contrary to the desires of the convention callers.

Two youth-oriented programs are also operated by the Forum: the "Teen Eagles" program for children ages 13–19^[16], and the "Eagle Forum Collegians" for conservatively-minded college students.^[17] Eagle Forum maintains offices in Clayton, Missouri^[18]; Alton, Illinois; and Washington, D.C^[1], and has established chapters in 30 states.^[2] Eagle Forum operates "Eagle Forum University", a "continuing education" program that offers conservative-oriented online courses on various topics.^[19]

[edit] Criticism

Eagle Forum has been criticized for its conservative views and activities. TheocracyWatch says "Congressional scorecards from organizations such as the Christian Coalition, Family Research Council, and Eagle Forum also illustrate the strength of dominionists in Congress."^[20][21] Frederick Clarkson wrote that the Eagle Forum and its founder, Phyllis Schlafly, were included in a "who's who of dominionists and dominionist-influenced Christian rightists" at a conference sponsored by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.^[22] Both TheocracyWatch and Glenn Scherer place the Eagle Forum with other so-called theocratic groups that are opposed to environmentalism.^[23][24]

[edit] See also

• Conservapedia, a wiki-based encyclopedia project launched by Schlafly's son

[edit] References

1. ^ ^a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-about_0-0) ^b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-about_0-1) ^c(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-about_0-2) "Join Eagle Forum so you will have a voice at the U.S. Capitol and at State Capitols". http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/descript.html. Retrieved 2006-01-22. 
2. ^ ^a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-pfaw_1-0) ^b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-pfaw_1-1) ^c(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-pfaw_1-2) ^d(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-pfaw_1-3) ^e(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-pfaw_1-4) ^f(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-pfaw_1-5) "Eagle Forum". People for the American Way. September 2002. http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3152. Retrieved 2007-02-19. 
3. ^ Right Wing Watch: Eagle Forum Archives
4. ^ Global Policy Forum - NGOs at the UN: Discrimination
5. ^ Phyllis Schlafly Bio
6. ^ http://www.jstor.org/view/00377791/ap030144/03a00040/0
7. ^ ^a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-diamond_6-0) ^b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum#cite_ref-diamond_6-1) Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States Sara Diamond. Guilford Press, 1995.
8. ^ Microsoft Word - English brief final.doc
9. ^ Tax Information for Charities & Other Non-Profits
10. ^ F.E.C. IMAGE 93038344312 (Page 1 of 7)
11. ^ http://blog.eagleforum.org/2009/12/feminists-dont-believe-in-choice.html
12. ^ Join Eagle Forum and Phyllis Schlafly - Join Eagle Forum so you will have a voice at the U.S. Capitol and at State Capitols
13. ^ Schlafly, Phyllis (1998-10-21). "Compulsory Medial Treatment is Un-American". Eagle Forum. http://www.eagleforum.org/column/1998/oct98/98-10-21.html. Retrieved 2007-03-04. 
14. ^ Lane, Frederick S. (2006). The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1591024277. 
15. ^ 2008 Index to Phyllis Schlafly Columns
16. ^ Eagle Forum Teen Eagles
17. ^ Eagle Forum Collegians
18. ^ Mannies, Jo (2005-07-31). "Phyllis Schlafly is keeping up the fight". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. http://www.eagleforum.org/phyllis/keeping-up-the-fight.html. Retrieved 2008-02-01. 
19. ^ "Eagle Forum University". http://www.eagleforumu.org/. Retrieved 2008-02-01. 
20. ^ Home Page before Nov. 06
21. ^ Chris Hedges Article
22. ^ The Rise of Dominionism - Remaking America as a Christian Nation Frederick Clarkson. The Public Eye Magazine, Winter 2005.
23. ^ The Environment TheocracyWatch.
24. ^ The Godly Must Be Crazy Glenn Scherer. Grist Magazine. October 2004.

[edit] External links

• Eagle Forum
• Eagle Forum University

Phyllis Schlafly served as President of the "Eagle Forum [1998], which has led the pro-family movement since 1972; author, sixteen books, topics include family and feminism, nuclear strategy, child care, education, and a new system to teach children to read called First Reader; monthly newsletter, The Phyllis Schlafiy Report since 1967; monthly publication, Education Reporter since 1986; syndicated columnist, appears in 100 newspapers; daily radio commentaries, heard on 270 stations; weekly radio talk show on education is heard weekly on 45 stations; attorney at law; Ronald Reagan Presidential appointee, Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution; has testified before 50 congressional and state legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues; Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Washington University; J.D., Washington University Law School; received Master's in Political Science from Harvard University; 1992 Illinois Mother of the Year; listed in who's who in America; mother of six. St. Louis, Missouri." ^[1]

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Coalition to Block the North American Union
• Council on National Policy
• North American Union
• Donald T. Critchlow

Related Links

• "Phyllis Schlafly", Townhall.com
• Bill Berkowitz, "Phyllis Schlafly's 50-year crusade", Media Transparency, February 18, 2006.