Schlafly preceded Dobson and Falwell in forging the Religious Right.

Evidence

It’s hard to overstate Schlafly’s significance in marshalling the forces of the Religious Right. Years before James Dobson or Jerry Falwell entered the political fray, Phyllis Schlafly helped unify white Christians around a rigid and deeply conservative vision of family and nation. Although her star faded by the end of the century, it wasn’t because her influence had waned. By that time, her ideas had come to define the Republican Party, and much of American evangelicalism. If she seemed superfluous, it was only because what she was saying had become the lingua franca among American conservatives. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 172

Categorization

• QUESTION: This makes one wonder about the standard origin story of the Religious Right (Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority 1979); Dub Mez is pushing the timeline back.
• XREF: connects to: Phyllis Schlafly conceived the cross-denominational religious right decades before Falwell — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 276