Phyllis Schlafly

Founder, Eagle Forum

Phyllis Schlafly was a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She created the pro-family movement in 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization called Eagle Forum. In a ten-year battle, Mrs. Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement, she debated on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. She was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies’ Home Journal.

Mrs. Schlafly’s monthly newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report was published for fifty years. At her request, the monthly newsletter was renamed after her death to the Eagle Forum Report: the Successor to The Phyllis Schlafly Report. Eagle Forum is the publisher of the Eagle Forum Report.

Her syndicated column appeared in 100 newspapers, and on many conservative websites.

Mrs. Schlafly was the author or editor of 27 books on subjects as varied as family and feminism (The Power of the Positive Woman and Feminist Fantasies); the judiciary (The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It); religion (No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom); nuclear strategy (Strike From Space and Kissinger on the Couch); education (Child Abuse in the Classroom); child care (Who Will Rock the Cradle?); and phonics (First Reader and Turbo Reader).

Mrs. Schlafly was a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. She testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues.

Mrs. Schlafly was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University, received her Master’s in Political Science from Harvard University, and received her J.D. from Washington University Law School. In 2008, Washington University/St. Louis awarded Phyllis Schlafly an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.

Phyllis Schlafly was America’s best-known advocate of the dignity and honor that we as a society owe to the role of fulltime homemaker. The mother of six children, she was the 1992 Illinois Mother of the Year.

Amending State & Federal Constitutions to Prohibit Sex Discrimination

Nov 17 2007

Saturday 10:45 a.m. EDT

Amending State & Federal Constitutions to Prohibit Sex Discrimination

2007 National Lawyers Convention

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

Martha F. Davis • Gail L. Heriot • Phyllis Schlafly • Jerry E. Smith

Topics:

Civil Rights • Constitution • State Governments

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Panel IV: Morality of First Amendment Jurisprudence

Feb 24 2007

Saturday 4:00 p.m. CDT

Panel IV: Morality of First Amendment Jurisprudence

2007 National Student Symposium

Northwestern University School of Law
375 E Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60611

Speakers:

Orin S. Kerr • Andrew Koppelman • John O. McGinnis • Phyllis Schlafly • Geoffrey R. Stone

Topics:

Constitution • Culture • Federal Courts • First Amendment • Founding Era & History • Jurisprudence • Philosophy • Religious Liberty • Supreme Court • Religious Liberties

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