At 2004 nventn, Schlafly mak her pot on gay marriage — unabashedly - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• MRS. AMERI: THE TTH ABOUT JOHN, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON
• SON OF CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REVEALS HE’S GAY
• HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
• ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY WAS CLOSE TO HER HOMOSEXUAL SON
• SON OF NSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY SAYS HE IS GAY
• FROM THE ARCHIV: AT 2004 NVENTN, SCHLAFLY MAK HER POT ON GAY MARRIAGE — UNABASHEDLY
• PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S SON IS GAY
• PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S LEGACY OF ANTI-GAY ACTIVISM
• HOW ACCURATE IS 'MRS. AMERI'S' PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON? WE REARCHED

MRS. AMERI: THE TTH ABOUT JOHN, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON

Ameri has retroduced John Schlafly (Ben Rosenfield), the gay son of Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett), the right-wg activist who waged war agast the Equal Rights Amendment. While John is gay, he did not acknowledge publicly until September 1992, when the gay New York Cy magaze Queer World, also known as QW, outed him shortly after the Republin Natnal Conventn, which was phg a "fay valu", a supporter of the homophobic ndidate Pat Buchanan, nfirmed his inty shortly afterward. (Related: The Sad Last Days of Homo-Hate Queen Phyllis Schlafly)"The gays have their argument about evabily, " Schlafly said of the fight for marriage equaly.

TIMES STAFF WRITER A son of nservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has publicly revealed that he is homosexual, while at the same time fendg his mother’s polil views and the Republin Party’s “fay valu” mpaign theme. ”He add that he “didn’t agree wh everythg” he heard at the GOP nventn but sisted that “efforts to nvey the (Republin) Conventn and the platform and speakers as bigots and gay bashers is pletely accurate. ”As for her stand on gay rights, Phyllis Schlafly said: “There’s nothg about my posn on gay rights that should be offensive to a gay unls he’s seekg some kd of preferential stat.

”While John Schlafly said he did not thk was right for someone to be fired based on sexual orientatn, he said he did “not support the so-lled gay-rights agenda” and was not sure what he thought of the ary’s ban on his remarks to the Examer, he disagreed wh one mon ntentn of the relig right, that homosexualy is a choice. In this episo, Phyllis gradually realiz that her elst son, John, is gay and nonts him about his sexualy an direct but unmistakable way, tellg him how she was able to qu smokg bee “the md is stronger than the body. ”While the particulars of the nversatn — and the circumstanc that spired — have almost certaly been imaged by the wrers, is te that John Schlafly is gay.

SON OF CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REVEALS HE’S GAY

He was outed by Queer World, a New York gay magaze, jt after the Republin Natnal Conventn 1992 — where cultural nservativ like Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson tmpeted the importance of “fay valu” and nounced Bill Clon’s support for gay rights. Anti-Gay Activist Phyllis Schlafly Was Close to Her Homosexual SonDid anti-gay activist and Equal Rights Amendment opposer Phyllis Schlafly have a gay son? Throughout her many years polics, Phyllis Schlafly advoted agast the Equal Rights Amendment, abortn, sex tn public schools, same-sex marriage, and gay civil rights.

Not only did she build a very succsful reer on the argument that a woman’s place is the home, her stance on gay rights was plited by the fact that her own son was a latt episos of Mrs. Prr to this terview, John was outed by a New York-based weekly journal lled QW, an fensible and misguid attempt to unmask the hypocrisy of Phyllis’ arguments agast gay rights. If anythg, John doubled down on supportg his mother’s msage of "fay valu, " and took shots at lears of the gay agenda llg them “a band of screechy gay activists.

”Article ntu below advertisementSource: gettyHe fend his mother an terview wh the Washgton Post, sayg, “Fay valu people, of which my mother is a part, are not out to bash gay people, ” addg that they were beg unfairly stigated by the media and the opposn party.

HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED

"I thk there has been a hysteril overreactn the gay muny" to the Republin platform, said John Schlafly, a 41-year-old attorney who liv and works wh his mother Alton, Ill. " He embrac his mother's views, cludg her opposn to same-sex marriag and to extendg civil rights protectn to gays and lbians, which he said would be a burn to employers. The statements e at a time when the printial ndidat are exprsg sharply different views on gay rights and the subject of homosexuals has emerged as a wedge issue the mpaign.

" At the nventn Hoton, televisn evangelist Pat Robertson troduced Phyllis Schlafly, sayg: "If were not for this lady, we would have had homosexual rights wrten to the Constutn. He said he has never tried to hi the fact that he was gay, but sce he is not a public figure, he nsired an vasn of privacy to publish his sexual orientatn.

ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY WAS CLOSE TO HER HOMOSEXUAL SON

“The fay valu movement is not anti-gay, ” he said to The Los Angel Tim, which noted that his mother’s polil anizatn, the Eagle Fom, was John's client and that John still lived at home. 12, 2005 John Schlafly, son of longtime nservative Republin firebrand Phyllis Schlafly, said Friday he is gay, a disclosure his mother said was a sneak attack by her polil enemi. Schlafly, a 41-year-old lawyer who liv wh his parents Alton, Ill., and numbers his mother's anizatn, Eagle Fom, among his clients, ma his first public claratn that he is gay an terview wh the San Francis Examer.

He do not thk gays and lbians were the targets of the "fay valu" platform adopted last month by the Republin Natnal Conventn at the urgg of his mother and other hard-le nservativ. After the nventn, many gay people plaed that Phyllis Schlafly and other GOP lears such as Pat Buchanan and fundamentalist Christian lear Pat Robertson sought to make gay people spegoats to distract voters om the natn's other problems.

SON OF NSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY SAYS HE IS GAY

When asked how, as the mother of a gay son, she reacted to some of the anti-gay rhetoric at the GOP nventn, Phyllis Schlafly said: "I jt don't thk you n go around wh a chip on your shoulr....

" In agreeg to be terviewed as a homosexual, John Schlafly said: "All I'm tryg to do is jt tryg to be one small voice sayg, "Maybe there is more to , maybe the issue is more plited. '" Schlafly said he thks existg "archaic" laws that target lbian and gay people, such as state sodomy statut and some anti-gay employment polici, ought to be repealed. But he endorsed the nservative cricism of gay civil rights protectns as addg an unnecsary burn to employers, sayg that such laws "also have unfortunate nsequenc.

FROM THE ARCHIV: AT 2004 NVENTN, SCHLAFLY MAK HER POT ON GAY MARRIAGE — UNABASHEDLY

Phyllis Schlafly is a longtime opponent of the gay rights the years, she has warned that the Equal Rights Amendment would lead to a regnn of gay rights. She has plaed that children’s sex-tn programs are mised to spread the belief that homosexual sex is acceptable if a ndom is ed, when tors should “jt tell them to keep their hands out of what’s si your swimsu.

”If anyone has helped nservativ nail down the plank the Republin Party platform opposg same-sex unns, is this octogenarian stalwart, who emerged as a pivotal force this week behd language supportg a nstutnal ban on gay she did all wh the help of the olst of her six adult children, John Schlafly, 53, her ai mp, who is gay. Schoolg around them the humid miasma is a surreal para of tourists, protters, legat, sightseers, police -- and y, publicly affectnate gay is, after all, New York. Already, the gay Log Cab Republins have spired an outbreak of Log Cab fever among New York Republin policians, who need Democratic vot to get elected and strayed om the official party le, makg sure they were seen and heard at Log Cab the nventn, where tradnalists clash wh those promotg tolerance of other liftyl, Republins talkg about the divid Ameri need look no further than the operatorPhyllis Schlafly is a disarmg woman, wh a genteel but very direct manner.

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S SON IS GAY

”Fellow nservative Gary Ber said Schlafly’s role reflects her stature as a member of the anti-abortn movement, which he said is arntly opposed to gay marriage. He don’t like to discs his sexual was outed September 1992 by the New York gay magaze QW, jt after the Republin nventn Hoton at which Pat Buchanan clared “Ameri’s culture war” and where his mother bated a gay Republin.

”She also said at the time that she supported the plank her party’s platform that opposed extendg civil rights to gays or allowg them the armed forc.

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S LEGACY OF ANTI-GAY ACTIVISM

She said, “I don’t believe sex outsi of marriage, ” and sce homosexuals uldn’t marry, she disapproved of the homosexual sex Phyllis Schlafly is unfazed by qutns about her son, though she’d rather talk about the “betiful” buildg the Eagle Fom has purchased the tony St.

“I get asked all the time, ” she says wh a shg, as she tak $20 bills om buyers of her books and unts the change, the hotly ntted specter of gay marriage is on the table Ameri.

HOW ACCURATE IS 'MRS. AMERI'S' PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON? WE REARCHED

Phyllis Schlafly, bt known for her stnch opposn to the Equal Rights Amendment for women, homosexual rights and sex tn schools, said, 'I love my son. John Schlafly, who refed to divulge how long his mother has known about his sexual orientatn, told Uned Prs Internatnal the ial public disclosure of his homosexualy me about two weeks ago the New York magaze QW. The nservativ who were acced and portrayed at the Republin nventn as gay bashers -- the tth of the matter is most of them are very highly motivated people who are scerely tryg to create a better world.

Phyllis Schlafly, founr of the nservative Eagle Fom and a major nservative force GOP polics sce the 1960s, scribed the media attentn to her son's homosexualy as a 'feedg enzy.

'Most Amerins and, really, most nservativ and, really, most ofpeople who sometim are lled the relig right are willg to grant that gays and lbians have all the same rights as all other Amerins have.