Washington University in St. Louis gave an honorary degree yesterday to Phyllis Schlafly, one of the dinosaurs of the Christian Right. The 83-year-old founder of the Concerned Women of America pressure group lives in nearby Alton, Ill. As she was awarded her honor, dozens of students and some faculty members
turned their backs in protest.
Schlafly is famous for her anti-feminist views, which she
expresses in deadening language that is hardly quotable. She is also well known for being strangely obsessed with
the teaching of reading using phonics, blaming other systems for everything from illiteracy to liberalism.
technorati: Phyllis Schafly, Washington University
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