Eagle Forum
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Eagle Forum is a Conservative organization in the United States. It is the parent organization that also includes the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund and the Eagle Forum PAC[1] The founder and current president is Phyllis Schlafly.[2]
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[edit] Purpose
The Eagle Forum has been primarily focused on social issues; it describes itself as pro-family, although opponents have described it as anti-feminist[3][4] and socially conservative.[5]
[edit] History
In 1967, Phyllis Schlafly launched the Eagle Trust Fund for receiving donations related to conservative causes.[6] After the 1972 passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Schlafly reorganized her efforts to defeat its ratification. The Eagle Forum emerged from this work and was officially founded in 1972 and began publishing the Eagle Forum Newsletter initially aimed at organizing and defeating the ERA.[7]
The Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund was organized in 1981 as a non-profit wing of Eagle forum.[8] It is a tax deductible charity under IRS code.[9]
The Eagle Forum PAC began receiving donations in 1993[10] and has served as a the source for candidate endorsements from the Eagle Forum and has donated money to various candidates described as right-wing.[11]
[edit] Organization
Eagle Forum reports to have a membership around 80,000.[12] It has two youth-oriented programmes: the "Teen Eagles" programme for children ages 12–17, and the "Eagle Forum Collegians" for conservative-minded college students. Eagle Forum maintains offices in Clayton, Missouri; Alton, Illinois; and Washington, D.C. Eagle Forum operates "Eagle Forum University", a "continuing education" programme that offers conservative-oriented online courses on various topics.
[edit] Scope activities
The Eagle Forum is involved primarily in issues of the conservative agenda. Among a range of issues the organization is: pro-life, against international oversight from the United Nations or the International Criminal Court, it supports English only in schools, and supports a “full time home-maker” and the institution of marriage.[13] Eagle forum is also the creator of Conservapedia, a wiki-based online encyclopedia founded in reaction to claimed liberal bias in Wikipedia as well as 'anti-Christianity' and 'anti-Americanism' biases in Wikipedia.[14]
It has also been active in the anti-vaccination movement, particularly fighting mandatory vaccination requirements for schoolchildren.[15]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.eagleforum.org/order/donate.html
- ^ http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/bio.html
- ^ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/groups/eagle_forum/
- ^ http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/docs00/druelle.htm
- ^ http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3152
- ^ http://www.jstor.org/view/00377791/ap030144/03a00040/0
- ^ http://www.jstor.org/view/00377791/ap030144/03a00040/0
- ^ http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/briefs/pdf/english.pdf
- ^ http://www.irs.gov/charities/index.html
- ^ http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?_93038344312+0
- ^ http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3152
- ^ http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/descript.html
- ^ http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/descript.html
- ^ http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/conor_clarke/2007/03/a_fact_of_ones_own_1.html
- ^ http://www.eagleforum.org/column/1998/oct98/98-10-21.html
