The life of Phyllis Schlafly

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She was a powerful woman who fought against female empowerment, and led the backlash against the feminist movement in the United States.   This is the story of the real Mrs. America, Phyllis Schlafly.

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00:00The feminist movement is incompatible with human nature.

00:04Men and women are different.

00:06And when they set out to try to pretend that they're the same,

00:11they're in a losing battle.

00:30We knew all the time that in our heart our cause was right.

00:48And basically our tactic was to go out into the highways and the byways,

00:53into the churches and the factories,

00:55tell our story,

00:57and assume that when people heard our message of traditional values,

01:01that they would vote for our candidates.

01:28We used to have a country where we had a great country

01:32that was built on the stable traditional family.

01:36The father provider and protector and the mother homemaker

01:41and parents taking care of their own children.

02:27Marriage requires a lot of social compromises

02:43and motherhood requires a great deal of self-sacrifice.

02:47And it requires a mother who is willing to put that baby ahead of her own desire.

02:53The conservative movement was born in the 1970s.

03:22It was born in the 1950s and 60s really based on a lot of study groups

03:27of people who were concerned about the Soviet missile threat,

03:30who wanted to maintain American military superiority.

04:01The feminist movement is incompatible with the truth.

04:07They've been telling American women they are so oppressed and mistreated.

04:12The feminist movement is really incompatible with marriage and motherhood

04:17because feminism teaches women to believe they should put their own career self-fulfillment

04:23above every other goal.

04:53The feminist movement is really incompatible with marriage and motherhood

05:00because feminism teaches women to believe they should put their own career self-fulfillment

05:06above every other goal.

05:08The feminist movement is really incompatible with marriage and motherhood

05:14because feminism teaches women to believe they should put their own career self-fulfillment

05:19above every other goal.

05:34After the feminists demanded that their radical agenda be written into the United States Constitution

05:41under the fraudulent name Equal Rights Amendment,

05:44women came out of their homes and churches to defend their families against this travesty.

06:05I realized that the tsunami was about to roll over us

06:09because everybody who was anybody was for the Equal Rights Amendment.

06:13And I looked for some new people, and I found them in the churches.

06:39Abortion is not about the beginning of life.

07:04It's about the killing of life,

07:06or as they call it, the termination of life.

07:09She's been in the world almanac every year.

07:38She is listed therein as one of the 25 most influential women in the United States.

07:43And this very month, even as we speak,

07:46Good Housekeeping has again named her the third most admired woman in the world

07:51right after Nancy Reagan and Mother Teresa.

08:05How did you deal with that?

08:07And I'm wondering, how does that fit in with your conservative philosophy about other issues?

08:13Well, he didn't come out.

08:15He was outed by a rag called Queer World.

08:20And it was something that clearly shows the political alliance of the gays and the abortionists.

08:38After 9-11, we can see that events and people can be judged in terms of good or evil,

08:46not in shades of gray.

08:48Some people are evil.

08:50Some countries are evil.

09:08A movement has lost its hero.

09:16And believe me, Phyllis was there for me when it was not at all fashionable.

09:24Trust me.

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