On the surface, the Equal Rights Amendment seems quite innocent. The main text states, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged or denied by the United States or any state on account of sex.”
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November 4, 2017 Senate Must Vote to Confirm Judges! After ten months since President Trump has taken office, the Senate Republicans have finally
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The brilliance of the Founding Fathers’ system of checks-and-balances is best illustrated when each of the co-equal branches asserts its influence upon the other two.
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In one of the most politically polarizing decisions since Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges decided that the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriage.
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August 4, 2017 President Trump’s First Six Months A hallmark of our Republic has been the orderly transfer of power from one administration to another
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The “climate change” agenda pushed by the United Nations is clearly an attack on American workers and jobs and our American standard of living. The Paris Accord is not in American economic interests, plus nothing in that Accord will matter to planet Earth.
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July 3, 2017 Religious liberty has become the left’s punching bag, forcing the Supreme Court to rule on many cases dealing with this issue alone.
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Virginia Armstrong made a few comments that participants seemed to appreciate and also offered some information easily accessible on the Internet.
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Eagle Forum sincerely thanks President Trump for keeping his promise to nominate an exceptionally qualified jurist who has a record of applying the Constitution as the Framers intended, not as it suits his own policy preferences.
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Most people would get over a defeat that occurred nearly 25 years ago, but feminists hold grudges forever. They continue to rage against Justice Clarence Thomas’s routing of them at his 1991 confirmation hearings, where he beat liberals at their own game, surviving a media ambush that would have destroyed any mere mortal.
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On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, where the first ballots for the next president were cast, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has not endorsed a candidate, gave a round of interviews declaring that 2016 “is the last chance for the American people to take back control of their government. . . .
Continue reading →The passing of Justice Antonin Scalia is a terrible loss for our Nation, and a reason for Republicans to rethink their approach to the judicial branch of our government.
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When the Supreme Court ruled by the narrowest possible margin that Kentucky’s definition of marriage is unconstitutional, the Court’s decision was qualified by its assurance that religious freedom would not be jeopardized. “The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection,” the Court solemnly intoned on June 26.
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St. Louis, MO: Phyllis Schlafly, Founder and CEO of Eagle Forum, released this statement today following a judge’s order to jail Kim Davis, the County Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky.
Continue reading →Phyllis Schlafly, conservative icon and Chairman of Eagle Forum, offered praise this week to the Republican National Committee after their passage of several good resolutions at last week’s 2015 Summer Meeting. Three particular resolutions were noteworthy: on defunding Planned Parenthood, protecting Religious Liberty, and condemning Judicial Activism from the bench.
Continue reading →Justice Kennedy’s opinion for a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court has rightly been condemned for its lack of grounding in the Constitutional text he is sworn to uphold. Unable to find gay marriage in either the due process clause or the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Kennedy ultimately rests his case on what Justice Clarence Thomas sarcastically called the “dignity clause” of the Constitution.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is just days away from deciding whether homosexual couples are entitled to marriage. The Justices’ ruling will become the law of the land and could redefine two centuries of marriage law in America.
Continue reading →Republican Party platforms have frequently stressed the central importance of the traditional family based on a married husband and wife, because that is the only way to achieve a self-reliant, self-supporting economic unit that minimizes the need for a welfare state.
Continue reading →On Friday, Congress disrupted President Obama’s plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership, and the big-donor claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to make this dangerous mistake.
Continue reading →Phyllis Schlafly and Eagle Forum are thrilled to support the new “Restrain the Judges on Marriage Act” filed by Representative Steve King (IA-4).
Continue reading →If you get your news primarily from entertainment shows or social media, you might think that same-sex marriage has already been recognized as a constitutional right. In fact, the Supreme Court held just the opposite in 1972 and has since refused several opportunities to revisit that ruling.
Continue reading →Within hours after the Supreme Court announced it would decide whether the Constitution requires every state to recognize marriages between persons of the same sex, the New York Times published an editorial gleefully predicting the inevitable outcome. When its ruling comes down in June, the Times assures us, the Supreme Court will “end the debate once and for all.”
Continue reading →It’s Roe v. Wade all over again, as the Supreme Court is poised to invent a new right to same-sex marriage found nowhere in the four corners of the Constitution. Fortunately, the Founders gave us checks and balances against this overreaching in power.
Continue reading →The British press just reported the result of a new study by academics from Oxford and the University of London that children raised in stable marital homes are better behaved than classmates brought up by unmarried parents. Children raised by married parents show lower levels of anti-social attitudes and hyperactivity.
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