Schlafly for the next ten years would echo much of what Eleanor Roosevelt and liberal detractors of the ERA stated and expand on their arguments infusing her brand of Christian Republicanism into her arguments. Quoting from Schlafly whose article was included in Donald Critchlow’s Debating the American Conservative Movement:
“Our Judeo-Christian civilization has developed the law and custom that, since women must bear the physical consequences of the sex act, men must be required to bear the other consequences and pay in other ways.”
Schlafly contended that the ERA would “force women to work outside the home, abolish alimony and child support, and make women subject to the military draft.” Schlafly was successful in stopping the spread of the ERA with her ‘S.T.O.P. ERA’ campaign, which stood for “Stop Taking Our Privileges”. Whereas Republicans had been instrumental in supporting the ERA in the 1920s and 40s, in the 1980s …show more content…
Johnson of the University of Dayton found in 1983 that: “People tend to have more favorable attitudes to ERA's content than to the term "Equal Rights Amendment.” Today we use the term “low information voters” to describe such people, Schlafly to her credit had already identified these people and more importantly, like President Trump today, how to rally them to achieve her objectives. Although no states ratified the ERA after 1977 several states “un-ratified” the ERA between 1974 and 1979. Geng Chunling in a 2012 article that appeared in the Canadian Social Science journal wrote that: “The ERA proponents needed 38 states to ratify, while she needed only 13 nonratifying states to win”. Chunling states that Schlafly’s arguments as including, “women would join men as combat soldiers, and that even the most private activities, such as going to the toilet, would be shared in common.”
“Our Judeo-Christian civilization has developed the law and custom that, since women must bear the physical consequences of the sex act, men must be required to bear the other consequences and pay in other ways.”
Schlafly contended that the ERA would “force women to work outside the home, abolish alimony and child support, and make women subject to the military draft.” Schlafly was successful in stopping the spread of the ERA with her ‘S.T.O.P. ERA’ campaign, which stood for “Stop Taking Our Privileges”. Whereas Republicans had been instrumental in supporting the ERA in the 1920s and 40s, in the 1980s …show more content…
Johnson of the University of Dayton found in 1983 that: “People tend to have more favorable attitudes to ERA's content than to the term "Equal Rights Amendment.” Today we use the term “low information voters” to describe such people, Schlafly to her credit had already identified these people and more importantly, like President Trump today, how to rally them to achieve her objectives. Although no states ratified the ERA after 1977 several states “un-ratified” the ERA between 1974 and 1979. Geng Chunling in a 2012 article that appeared in the Canadian Social Science journal wrote that: “The ERA proponents needed 38 states to ratify, while she needed only 13 nonratifying states to win”. Chunling states that Schlafly’s arguments as including, “women would join men as combat soldiers, and that even the most private activities, such as going to the toilet, would be shared in common.”