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Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (; born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart, August 15, 1924) is a retired American constitutional lawyer, conservative activist, author, and speaker and founder of the Eagle Forum. She is known for her staunch social and political conservatism, 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 over 3 million copies as a push-back against Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Eastern Republican Establishment. She co-authored books on national defense and was highly critical of arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union.〔Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. ''Right–Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort''. New York: Guilford Press, p. 202.〕 Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in the 1970s and the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, St. Louis. She is currently Chairman of the Board and CEO of Eagle Forum and maintains a presence on the lecture circuit. Since 1967, she has published a newsletter, the ''Phyllis Schlafly Report''. == Family == Schlafly's great-grandfather Stewart, a Presbyterian, emigrated from Scotland to New York in 1851 and moved westward through Canada before settling in Michigan.〔profile of Andrew F. Stewart, in ''Men of West Virginia'', Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago: 1903. pp. 157–158.〕 Her grandfather, Andrew F. Stewart, was a master mechanic with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.〔1902–03 City Directory, Huntington, WV and 1910 Federal Census (Virginia), Alleghany County, Clifton Forge, ED126, Sheet 9A and note 1.〕 Schlafly's father, John Bruce Stewart, was a machinist and salesman of industrial equipment, principally for Westinghouse. He became unemployed in 1932 during the Great Depression and could not find permanent work until World War II.〔Critchlow, Donald. "Founding Mother-Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade." Princeton University Press. pp. 422〕 He was granted a patent in 1944 for a rotary engine.〔Carol Felsenthal, ''The sweetheart of the silent majority: the biography of Phyllis Schlafly'' (Doubleday, 1981).〕 Schlafly's mother, Odile,〔https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/phyllis-schlafly〕 was the daughter of attorney Ernest C. Dodge. She attended college and graduate school. Before her marriage, she worked as a teacher at a private girls' school in St. Louis.〔1919 Gould’s St. Louis City Directory〕 During the Depression Schlafly's mother went back to work as a librarian and a school teacher to support her family. On October 20, 1949, when she was 25 years old, Phyllis married attorney John Fred Schlafly, Jr.; he died in 1993. He came from a well-to-do St. Louis family. His grandfather, August, emigrated in 1854 from Switzerland. In the late 1870s, the three brothers founded the firm of Schlafly Bros., which dealt in groceries, Queensware (dishes made by Wedgwood), hardware, and agricultural implements.〔''The 1881 History of Marion & Clinton Counties, Illinois''〕 These Schlafly brothers later sold that business and concentrated on banking and other businesses that made them wealthy.〔Felsenthal biography〕 They were both active Catholics. Phyllis and her husband linked Catholicism to Americanism and often exhorted Catholics to join the anti-Communist crusade.〔Critchlow 2005, pp. 42-43.〕 Schlafly and her husband moved to Alton, Illinois, and had six children: John, Bruce, Roger, Liza, Andrew and Anne.〔Critchlow 2005, pp. 31–33.〕 In 1992, their eldest son, John, was outed as gay by ''Queer Week'' magazine.〔〔(The gay vice squad – QW's outing article about homosexuality of John Schlafly, son of pro-life advocate Phyllis Schlafly – Editorial )〕 Schlafly acknowledged that John is gay, but stated that he embraces his mother's views. Schlafly is the aunt of conservative anti-feminist author Suzanne Venker; together they wrote ''The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phyllis Schlafly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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