RIP Phyllis Schlafly, the 1st lady of anti-feminism!

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a conservative hero!

 

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i need some famous people to die so i can unfollow them on twitter cos i've almost hit my follow limit!

 

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so keep me posted on that folks!

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Longtime Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies at 92

So very sad.. Condolences to the family. Conservatives lost a very brave woman tonight. Fly free Angel.

 

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And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

 

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Phyllis Schlafly, political activist who helped push GOP to the right, dead at 92

The brief amendment ("Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex") was anti-family and anti-American, she said. Equality, she added, would be a step down for most women who are "extremely well-treated" by society and laws.

Binding together fundamentalists, evangelicals, Catholics, Mormons and Orthodox Jews, Schlafly realized that she could direct a movement of people who believed the family and traditional values were under attack. A best-selling author, radio commentator and an excellent debater, she barnstormed the country, speaking before clubs, church organizations and 30 state legislatures.

By the time the deadline for passage of the ERA arrived in 1982, 15 states rejected it and five other states rescinded their ratifications. It fell three states short of passage.

Schlafly staged a festive burial party at Washington's Shoreham Hotel and told a crowded news conference that the ERA "is dead for now and forever in this century" and said the nation could now enter "a new era of harmony between women and men."

Just as her public life didn't begin with the ERA, it didn't end with its defeat. The battle over the ERA helped launch the family values, anti-abortion movement in the United States, and Schlafly continued to be one of its standard-bearers, as well as supporting causes such as opposition to illegal immigrants, federal judicial activism, ballots in languages other than English, the Title IX rules that required equal treatment of girls and boys in sports, and "privacy-invading questions" on the census. Secretaries, stewardesses and other women fighting for wages of comparable worth were simply "envious," Schlafly said, of the wages paid to janitors and truck drivers.

Always quotable, her opinions could outrage and provoke members of the establishment from her own political party as well. When President Ronald Reagan's surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, tried to introduce AIDS education to public school curricula in the 1980s, Schlafly likened it to "the teaching of safe sodomy." She called sex education "a principal cause of teenage pregnancy."

Reagan-appointed Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy also ran afoul of Schlafly in 2005, when his opinion questioning capital punishment for juveniles seemed to her to be grounds for impeachment. She said during the 2010 Conservative Political Action Committee convention in Washington, D.C., that no woman, including former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, was yet ready to be president.

She also cheered Palin's selection as a vice-presidential candidate on the 2008 Republican ticket, describing her as "an exemplar of all that is good and true."

Well-spoken, self-assured, dressed like an affluent homemaker, "with a hairdo like a treble clef," as Ginia Bellafante of the New York Times said in 2006, Schlafly drove feminists nuts.

A woman's most important job is to be a wife and mother, Schlafly repeatedly said, even as she employed a full-time housekeeper to care for her six children. She said she was never away from home overnight and often took her infants with her on speaking engagements. Decades later, in 1992, her home state of Illinois named her its Mother of the Year.

"I'd like to thank my husband, Fred, for letting me be here today," she told a crowd of 11,000 at a pro-family gathering in 1977. "I like to say that because it irritates the women's libbers more than anything."

In 1981, speaking at a Senate Labor Committee hearing on sexual harassment in the workplace, Schlafly said that "men hardly ever ask sexual favors of women from whom the certain answer is 'No.' Virtuous women are seldom accosted by unwelcome sexual propositions or familiarities, obscene talk or profane language."

She never shrank from battle,agreeing countless times to debate well-known feminists such as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal. In one such face-off, at Illinois State University in 1973, the often-volatile Friedan called Schlafly a traitor to her sex and said she'd like to burn her at the stake. Four years later, after Schlafly implied that all the women at the 1977 women's conference in Houston were gay, Steinem, one of the few feminists who could match her quotes, retorted, "If we're all lesbians, where are we getting all these unborn babies to kill?"

An enthusiastic supporter of Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president in 1964, Schlafly wrote her first book, "A Choice Not an Echo," attacking the elite, East Coast kingmakers of the party who ignored the grass-roots conservatives who were Goldwater's base. She published it herself as a mail-order paperback, and it sold more than 3 million copies before Election Day.

The success inspired her to write a series of books about national defense, in partnership with retired Navy Adm. Chester Ward. One accused Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and presidential advisers McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow of deliberately weakening the U.S. military so that Russians could overwhelm the United States. Another, written by herself, contends that communists instigated the urban riots in 1967.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

What a sad day. A conservative icon. I only hope she voted absentee. RIP Phillis.

 

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"Phyllis Schlafly is a conservative icon who led millions to action, reshaped the conservative movement, and fearlessly battled globalism and the 'kingmakers' on behalf of America's workers and families,"
"I was honored to spend time with her during this campaign as she waged one more great battle for national sovereignty." - Orange Bear Trump

 

[NYcarbineer]

The extinction of conservatism continues.

 

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"I can remember 1980 when a lot of us didn't think Reagan was an authentic conservative," Schlafly told CNN in an interview in May.

"Reagan turned out to be best president of the century," she said. She backed Trump partly because he was the only candidate talking about illegal immigration, which she said was "the most important issue in the country."

 

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[EriktheRed]

IOW, good riddance to bad rubbish.

 

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"Married women can’t be raped.” “Virtuous women can’t be sexually harassed.” -- Phyllis Schlafly

 

[Sun Devil 92]

The extinction of conservatism continues.

Now that is funny.

The House and Senate are more conservative than they have been for a long time.

They are forcing moderates to the right (not that I like that).

But it is dying.

Hysterical.

 

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Many Titans of freedom have died this year.

 

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Defended life like no one else. Ever.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Thanks to Mrs. Schlafly, Betty Bowers doesn't have an ERA amendment passed. LOL.

 

[EriktheRed]

Well, well....