With her famous mother back in the news again thanks to a new Hulu series, Anne Schlafly Cori is doing her best to help the public separate fact from fiction.
Cori is the daughter of Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative leader who led a movement of women in the 1970s to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment after it appeared headed for easy ratification. The proposed amendment to the Constitution would have guaranteed “equality of rights” under the law on “account of sex.”
The new nine-part Hulu series, Mrs. America, follows the cultural battle between Schlafly and the feminists of that era, including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. Cate Blanchett plays Schlafly.
Although Schlafly was a person of faith, the series largely ignores this element of her life.
“The truth is that her philosophy came from her deep faith, and everything she believed was because of her Catholic faith,” Cori told Christian Headlines. “… Her faith was central in informing every decision she made. The series scrubs her faith out of it.”
Schlafly brought together people of different faiths – evangelicals and Catholics, for example – to form the Stop ERA Movement and the Eagle Forum, an organization that still exists. Cori is its chairman.
“It was quite a revolution and what started the pro-family movement,” Cori said. “These people had not been in politics before and had really…
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