19 Facts About Andrew Schlafly

Andrew Layton Schlafly is an American lawyer and Christian conservative activist.

Andrew Schlafly is the founder and owner of the wiki encyclopedia project Conservapedia.

Andrew Schlafly is the son of the conservative activist and lawyer Phyllis Schlafly.

Andrew Schlafly's father Fred Schlafly was an attorney, and his mother Phyllis spearheaded the movement opposing the Equal Rights Amendment and was founder of the Eagle Forum.

Andrew Schlafly later worked for Bell Labs before enrolling at Harvard Law School.

Andrew Schlafly graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 with a JD in the class that included future US president Barack Obama.

From 1989 to 1991, Andrew Schlafly was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

In 1992, Andrew Schlafly ran as a Republican for the United States House of Representatives seat of Virginia's 11th congressional district; Andrew Schlafly came in last place in a field of five candidates in the primary.

In 2010, Andrew Schlafly wrote an article for the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons about the economic effects of the legislation.

In 2010, Andrew Schlafly took the role of lead counsel for a group seeking to recall US Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.

Later that year, Schlafly represented the group RecallND in RecallND v Jaeger before the North Dakota Supreme Court in another effort to recall Democratic Senator Kent Conrad.

Andrew Schlafly created the wiki-based Conservapedia in November 2006 to counter what he perceived as a liberal bias present in Wikipedia.

Andrew Schlafly felt the need to start the project after reading a student's assignment written using Common Era dating notation, rather than the Anno Domini system that he preferred.

Andrew Schlafly expressed hope that Conservapedia would become a general resource for American educators and a counterpoint to the liberal bias that he perceived in Wikipedia.

In 2009, Andrew Schlafly appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss his Conservative Bible Project, a project hosted on Conservapedia that aims to rewrite English translations of the Bible in order to remove or alter terms advancing a "liberal bias".

Conservapedia supports creationism and objects to evolution, so Andrew Schlafly disputed that bacteria could evolve via beneficial mutations.

Andrew Schlafly was criticized by Lenski on Ars Technica, among other sites, for not reading Lenski's paper properly, for not understanding the experimental data he requested, and for not taking notice of people on Conservapedia itself who considered the paper well researched.

In 2011, Andrew Schlafly led a lawsuit on behalf of the family of his activist mother, Phyllis, to block The Saint Louis Brewery from acquiring a trademark on the name "Andrew Schlafly".

In 1984, Andrew Schlafly married Catherine Kosarek, a medical student and fellow Princeton alum.