Eagle Forum
American conservative interest group
Eagle Forum is a conservative advocacy group in the United States founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972. Focused on social issues, it is socially conservative, and describes itself as pro-family. Critics have described it as anti-feminist, anti-LGBT, ultraconservative, and far-right. A 501(c)(4) organization, it is affiliated with the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and the Eagle Forum Political Action Committee (PAC). It organizes the Eagle Council, an annual training for conservative speakers.
After Eagle Forum endorsed the Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign, board members, including Phyllis Schlafly, who supported the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign left the organization and founded Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a 501(c)(4), and Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle PAC.
History
In 1967, Phyllis Schlafly launched the Eagle Trust Fund for receiving donations related to conservative causes. After the 1972 proposal of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Schlafly reorganized her efforts to defeat its ratification, founding the group "Stop ERA" and starting the Eagle Forum Newsletter. In 1975, Stop ERA was renamed the Eagle Forum. The Eagle Forum was part of the New Right in the 1970s, which emphasized social issues important to the Christian right in the conservative movement. A similar group, Concerned Women for America, formed in 1979, and both grew after the election of Ronald Reagan in 1981.
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