Word: weyrich
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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...
However, the paper's policy does much more than this. It destroys the proper barrier between the news and editorial departments. If Weyrich wanted his newspapers to offer an opinion on homosexuality or abortion the editorial page would have been the proper place to express his views. His decision to determine what's worthy of reporting fails to further his agenda and detracts from the credibility of his newspapers...
...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...