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Last month, fledgling newspapers The San Luis Obispo and Atascadero Gazettes formalized their policies against reporting news concerning homosexuality or abortion. David Weyrich and his wife, the owners of these local papers of California, asserted this position with a front-page editorial advocating the sanctity of family "as God defines it." Todd Hansen, the weeklies' chief operating officer has referred the new policy as one that prevents the paper from "promoting the gay lifestyle or abortion...
...Jerry Falwell founds the Moral Majority with Paul Weyrich and others, luring many conservative Southern Democrats into the G.O.P...
...Paul Weyrich, longtime leader of social conservatives, writes an open letter arguing that they should withdraw from politics and focus on spirituality...
Last February, Paul Weyrich came to a similar conclusion. In an open letter to his Free Congress Foundation, Weyrich, perhaps the most influential conservative strategist of the past two decades, declared his life's work a failure. "Conservatives," he wrote, "have learned to succeed in politics. That is, we got our people elected. But that did not result in the adoption of our agenda. The reason, I think, is that politics has failed...
Later this month Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, one of the more thoughtful conservatives in Congress, is assembling a summit to talk about where to go next. He has invited Thomas, Bennett and Weyrich, who may find inspiration in what Weyrich describes as an outpouring of letters he has received from people telling him of some private charitable initiatives that have gone where no bureaucrat has gone before...