Posted on 08/15/2014 10:49:43 AM PDT by jazusamo
I remember proponents of the E.R.A. (that would be all the usual suspects) mocking opponents for suggesting it would lead to such things as unisex public bathrooms. Ha! As if that could ever happen.
Oh, wait a minute ....
Phyllis Schlafly is a great lady, as are the women whom she recruited, developed, and led.
I met her on a few occasions. She is very much a Yankee in manner but I’ll say this for her...she is one of the most successful political activists of the 20th Century. Her stopping the ERA Amendment when it had such momentum was a huge political upset. And of course the so-called ERA was very dangerous to conservative principles.
Well stated. :-)
She is an amazing lady and I proudly join the well wishers in wishing her a happy birthday and many more . . .
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY to a lady with larger cajones than just about every member of the GOP (Gutless Old Patricians).
Schlafly and Thatcher — two women that deserve utmost respect and admiration.
But I made myself invesigate her research. I kept my eyes open to consider her claims.
And it turns out she was right about the whole thing in general, and every d@#$ part of it is particular.
Decades before he rest of us.
I salute her superior insight and unsurpassable organizing skill. Great lady indeed!
Imagine how famous she would be if she were a liberal. Wonderful woman.
I should probably have worded my first post better. By “proponents”, I meant those leading the charge, and responsible for generating the propaganda for the pro side. At one point, most Americans — and FWIW, most Canadians too, supported the ERA. I, myself thought something like: “what’s wrong with equal rights?”.
One of my heroines. Hope she has a great birthday!
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Happy Birthday to a truly great American woman.
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Mom abandoned her post, due to industrialization, birth control, and restlessness. It’s interesting how many businesses exist that have outsourced the traditional female role - beginning with canned foods through birthday party planners.
Phyllis is 100% pro-life and speaks out strongly against abortion.
Thatcher was a pro-abort.
She’s one gutsy lady. Happy birthday, ma’am!
I discovered this woman in the 90s while raising five children (stay at home).
Reading her was like a breath of fresh air. It was a ‘coming out of Plato’s Cave’ for me-—although I was always at the mouth of the cave (because of Classical Education and a stay-at-home mother and large family).
I never felt comfortable with the “group think” that Pop Culture was promoting 24/7 which set alarm bells off to Common Sense and Reason.
I couldn’t understand WHY our government and culture was promoting evil and slavery and destruction of the Natural Family—trying to normalize children in daycares and in institutions all day controlled totally with no time for freedom/free inquiry, time bonding with family, etc. Kids were ignorant of things I took for granted and immersed myself in while growing up. Silence/Time to Reflect without constant “white noise”.
Work Ethic (child labor laws) were being destroyed in children and all their activities/play were being regimented/controlled by the State to habituate dependency and surveillance and destroy autonomy in parenting (habituating parents to dependency on the Sate)...eliminating risk and freedom and initiative and freedom of parents to transmit their own beliefs and the work ethic which has to be habituated in young children, along with Virtue.
I new that Pop Culture was promoting evil and dysfunction, conditioning children to “group think” and that it was championing ideology antithetical to the Founding Worldview and Christianity, which would destroy the Natural Family and Reason-—which would eventually collapse culture.
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