Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlaflyis a semi-retired American constitutional lawyer, conservative activist, author, and speaker and founder of the Eagle Forum. She is known for her staunch social and political views, her opposition to modern feminism, and her successful campaign against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Her 1964 book A Choice, Not an Echo sold more than three million copies as a push-back against liberal Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller and the powerful Eastern Republican Establishment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth15 August 1924
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.
The battle has been fought at Republican National Conventions over a long time. It's a done deal for the Republican Party.
Not much. I don't think Giuliani or Pataki will resonate with grass-roots Republicans or Midwest Republicans. They are SO New York.
The voters are beginning to flex their muscles on cultural and patriotic issues.
We will not stand activist judges who legislate from the bench, who remake our culture. ... We will not tolerate judges who change the rules of our written Constitution. You, the American people, play a big part on how to deal with these out-of-control judges. ... The answer is in your hands.
We expected President Bush to appoint a woman with the opposite judicial philosophy and paper trail of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Our disappointment is acute.
Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
What are they going to do so people can hear? ... I was here last month for five hours and didn't hear one-third of what was said.
Do you ever wonder why the internet is so polluted with pornography? The Supreme Court just reminded us why: it blocks every attempt by Congress to regulate the pornographers.
This book is a must-read in order to understand how judicial supremacists have denied our inalienable right to acknowledge God.