# Pat Robertson — "the feminist agenda" > [!quote] "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." > — Pat Robertson, Christian Coalition fundraising letter (Iowa, July 1992) ## Context From a direct-mail fundraising letter Robertson's [[Christian Coalition]] circulated in 1992 to defeat Iowa's proposed state equal-rights amendment (Amendment 1). It is frequently and wrongly attributed to a convention-speech setting; the verified source is the letter, reported contemporaneously by the *Washington Post* in August 1992. Logged here as `op-ed` (published advocacy text) since the vault venue enum has no "letter" category. ## Why this matters The purest distillation of organized-religious-right antifeminism: it fuses [[Antifeminism]], anti-LGBTQ, and anti-socialist panic into a single sentence, casting women's equality as an existential civilizational threat. A foundational receipt for tracing the [[Christian Nationalism]] movement's gender politics from the Schlafly-era ERA fight forward into contemporary "tradwife" and pronatalist rhetoric. ## Verification - **Contemporaneous reporting:** [Washington Post, Aug. 23, 1992](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/08/23/equal-rights-initiative-in-iowa-attacked/f3e553a1-b768-449f-8d65-d096f9e318ee/). - **Fact-check / provenance:** [Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pat-robertson-feminist-agenda/) — confirms wording and corrects the common misattribution to a speech. - **Status:** Verbatim, undisputed wording; setting (letter, not speech) frequently misreported. ## Related quotes - [[Pat Buchanan - religious war for the soul of America]] — the same 1992 culture-war moment, from the movement's electoral-insurgent wing. - Featured in [[Christian Nationalism in Government]] — the movement-to-governance pattern collection. - Featured in [[Misogyny on the Right]] — the misogyny/antifeminism pattern collection. - Featured in [[Politics as Holy War]] — the Manichaean-politics pattern collection.