25 Facts About Paul Weyrich

Paul Michael Weyrich was an American religious conservative political activist and commentator associated with the New Right.

Paul Weyrich co-founded the conservative think tanks The Heritage Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Paul Weyrich coined the term "moral majority," the name of the political action group Moral Majority that he co-founded in 1979 with Jerry Falwell.

Paul Weyrich was active in the Racine County Young Republicans from 1961 to 1963 and in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.

Paul Weyrich spent his early career in journalism as a political reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper, as political reporter and weekend anchor for WISN-TV, and in radio as a reporter for WAXO-FM, WLIP-AM, and as news director of KQXI.

That same year, Paul Weyrich was forced out of the network he had founded when the network's head persuaded its board to force out Paul Weyrich in a hostile takeover.

In contrast with many conservatives, Paul Weyrich had a long history of ardent support for rail mass transit.

Paul Weyrich opposed "bus rapid transit", and instead supported rail transit as a more effective alternative.

Paul Weyrich wrote an opinion column for most issues and contributed a few feature articles.

FCF discontinued its affiliation with TNERJ in 1996, but the magazine continued being produced, under a different publishing company, until the end of 1998, with Paul Weyrich listed as "Publisher Emeritus".

Paul Weyrich served on the national board of Amtrak and the Amtrak Reform Council, as well as on local and regional rail transit advocacy organizations.

No, Paul Weyrich insisted, what got us going as a political movement was the attempt on the part of the Internal Revenue Service to rescind the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University because of its racially discriminatory policies.

Paul Weyrich, supported by Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, sued the magazine and others for libel; the case was dismissed, then remanded in January 2001, then dropped by Paul Weyrich.

Paul Weyrich abhorred Political Correctness which he called Cultural Marxism, seeing it as a deliberate effort to undermine what he believed was "our traditional, Western, Judeo-Christian culture" and the conservative agenda in American society.

Paul Weyrich continued to reject allegations that he advocated theocracy, saying, "[T]his statement is breathtaking in its bigotry", and dismissed the claim that the Christian right wished to transform America into a theocracy.

Katherine Yurica wrote that Paul Weyrich guided Eric Heubeck in writing The Integration of Theory and Practice, the Free Congress Foundation's strategic plan published in 2001 by the FCF, which she says calls for the use of deception, misinformation, and divisiveness to allow conservative evangelical Christian Republicans to gain and keep control of seats of power in the government of the United States.

Paul Weyrich publicly rejected accusations that he wanted America to become a theocracy:.

Paul Weyrich often made an issue out of what he claimed were his fellow conservatives' behavior and abuse of power, and he encouraged a grassroots movement in conservatism he called "the next conservatism", which he said should work to "restore America" from the bottom up.

Paul Weyrich advocated a revival of the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, with the aim of identifying and removing communists from the media, which he contended still harbors infiltrators from the former Soviet Union:.

Paul Weyrich: It has been known for many years that Congressman Foley was a homosexual.

Frustrated with public indifference to the Lewinsky scandal, Paul Weyrich wrote a letter in February 1999 stating that he believed conservatives had lost the culture war, urging a separatist strategy where conservatives ought to live apart from corrupted mainstream society and form their own parallel institutions:.

Paul Weyrich was diagnosed with a spinal injury known as arachnoiditis, resulting from a 1996 fall on black ice.

Paul Weyrich died on December 18,2008, aged 66, at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia.

Paul Weyrich was at the hospital for routine tests, and the cause of death was not released.

Paul Weyrich was interred in Fairfax Memorial Park, Fairfax, Virginia, on December 22,2008.