Claims to fame: Radically homophobic, anti-equality, anti-feminist founder of hard-right Eagle Forum
Moral apex: Implicated in the Franklin Credit Union Child-Sex Ring Scandal. See also: Craig J. Spence.
Divine justice: One of her sons is gay:
Schlafly also fielded questions from reporters — on John F. Kerry’s Vietnam record, on abortion, but mostly, on homosexuality. Which brings Schlafly to another thing she wishes: that people would stop asking her about her gay son.John Schlafly, 53, the eldest of her six children, acknowledged he is gay in 1992. Since then, Phyllis Schlafly — who believes homosexuality is wrong, because all sex outside marriage is wrong — has had to publicly square her vehement opposition to gay rights with her son’s sexuality.
Sadly, he’s also a brainwashed chicken working for Colonel Sanders:
”It’s not a problem for anybody but the press,” she said, a little impatiently, on Tuesday night. ”He is very supportive of everything I do. He’s a good lawyer and very helpful. He is not a proponent of same-sex marriage.”Indeed, John Schlafly works for the activist group Schlafly founded in 1972, the Eagle Forum, and traveled to New York to help his mother at the convention.
— At 80, Schlafly is still a conservative force
Boston Globe
September 2, 2004
See also:
“Dr.” Phyllis Schlafly: So, Washington University awards degrees for hatred and stupidity now?
Lavender Newswire, May 14, 2008
[...] Barney Frank and Senators John Glenn and Frank Murkowski; political activist/propagandist Phyllis Schlafly; former Attorney General John Mitchell (who once co-hosted a party with Spence); journalists [...]