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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 The founder and current president is Phyllis Schlafly.

Purpose

The Eagle Forum has been primarily focused on social issues; it describes itself as pro-family. Opponents have described it as anti-feminist and socially conservative.

History

In 1967, Phyllis Schlafly launched the Eagle Trust Fund for receiving donations related to conservative causes. 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.

The Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund was organized in 1981 as a non-profit wing of Eagle forum. It is a tax deductible charity under IRS code.

The Eagle Forum PAC began receiving donations in 1993 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.

Organization

Eagle Forum reports to have a membership around 80,000. It has two youth-oriented programmes: the "Teen Eagles" programme for children ages 13–19, 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.

Activities and positions

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.

It has also been active in the anti-vaccination movement, particularly fighting mandatory hepatitis B vaccination requirements for newborn babies.

Criticism

Eagle Forum has been accused of "promoting the theocratic right" by the advocacy group TheocracyWatch

References

  1. http://www.eagleforum.org/order/donate.html
  2. http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/bio.html
  3. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/groups/eagle_forum/
  4. http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/docs00/druelle.htm
  5. http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3152
  6. http://www.jstor.org/view/00377791/ap030144/03a00040/0
  7. http://www.jstor.org/view/00377791/ap030144/03a00040/0
  8. http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/briefs/pdf/english.pdf
  9. http://www.irs.gov/charities/index.html
  10. http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?_93038344312+0
  11. http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3152
  12. http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/descript.html
  13. http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/descript.html
  14. http://www.eagleforum.org/column/1998/oct98/98-10-21.html
  15. "The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party: Introduction", TheocracyWatch, Last updated: March 2006; URL accessed May 8, 2006.

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