Weyrich was its first president.

One was a column by Paul Weyrich, a conservative Christian leader and head of the Free Congress Foundation, who argued that " Christ was crucified by the Jews.

Paul Weyrich — founder of the Heritage Foundation and Free Congress Education and Research Foundation

* Paul Weyrich, chair and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation

Although mostly known in France, according to Minkenberg, the Nouvelle Droite borders to other European " New Right " movements, such as Neue Rechte in Germany, New Right in the United Kingdom, Nieuw Rechts in the Netherlands and Flanders, Forza Nuova in Italy, Imperium Europa in Malta, Nova Hrvatska Desnica in Croatia, Noua Dreapta in Romania and the New Right of Paul Weyrich and the Free Congress Foundation in the United States.

The European New Right is similar to the Cultural Conservatism movement led by Paul Weyrich and the Free Congress Foundation, and to the related traditionalism of paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan and the Chronicles ( magazine ) of the Rockford Institute ( Diamond, Himmelstein, Berlet and Lyons ).

The following year, again with support from Coors, Weyrich founded the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress ( CSFC ), an organization that trained and mobilized conservative activists, recruited conservative candidates, and raised funds for conservative causes.

In response to a 1999 controversy covered by the press concerning a group of Wiccans in the United States military who were holding religious rituals and services on the grounds of the bases they were assigned to, Weyrich sought to exempt Wiccans from the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and bar them from serving the military altogether.

According to TheocracyWatch, and the Anti-Defamation League, both Weyrich and his Free Congress Foundation were closely associated with Dominionism.

The Anti-Defamation League identified Weyrich and the Free Congress Foundation as part of an alliance of more than 50 of the most prominent conservative Christian leaders and organizations that threaten the separation of church and state.

Katherine Yurica wrote that 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.

The Free Congress Foundation ( more formally the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation and Free Congress or FCF for short ), is a conservative think tank founded by Paul Weyrich.

In 1974, in part to counteract its influence, Weyrich founded the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress ( CSFC ), whose name implied that the United States Congress was dominated by labor and other liberal-leaning interest groups, and that this situation needed to change.

The Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner and Joseph Coors.

In 1973, persuading Joseph Coors to put the money in, Weyrich and Edwin Feulner founded the Heritage Foundation as a think tank to counter liberal views on taxation and regulation, which they considered to be anti-business.

It complemented in a respect the activities of the Heritage Foundation, which Weyrich had also co-founded, which researched tax and regulatory issues.

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

Over the next two decades, Weyrich founded, co-founded, or held prominent roles in a number of other notable conservative organizations.

Weyrich also served on the national board of Amtrak ( 1987 – 1993 ) and the Amtrak Reform Council, as well as on local and regional rail transit advocacy organizations.

" Paul Weyrich, Terry Dolan, Richard Viguerie ( the Catholics ) and Howard Phillips ( the Jew ) left Christian Voice.

In 1977, Weyrich co-founded Christian Voice with Robert Grant.

Weyrich opposed what he saw as cultural Marxism's efforts to undermine Christian culture in American society.

Illustrating his point, Weyrich drew a comparison between " how the Christian church grew amidst a decaying Roman Empire " and " how the next conservatism can restore an American republic as a falling America Empire collapses around us.

The program quoted Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the conservative activist organization the Moral Majority, as saying " The Washington Post became very arrogant and they just decided that they would determine what was news and what wasn't news and they wouldn't cover a lot of things that went on.

Soon after being elected to his first full term in 1970, he was tapped by several conservative activists, including Paul Weyrich, to form a group of conservative congressmen to keep watch on the Republican leadership, which at the time was seen as too moderate.

WAXO first signed on the air at 96. 9 FM on November 4, 1962 ; the first voice heard was that of Paul Weyrich.

Other early participants included Cleon Skousen, a prominent Mormon theologian and founder of the Freemen Institute ; Paul Weyrich ; Phyllis Schlafly ; Robert Grant ; Howard Phillips, a former Republican affiliated with the Constitution Party ; Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail specialist ; and Morton Blackwell, a Louisiana and Virginia activist who is considered a specialist on the rules of the Republican Party.

Weyrich advocated a revival of the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee of the U. S. 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:

Norris: Now, before we go on, I think I can say, Mr. Weyrich, that there're quite a few people who would take exception to the statement that homosexuals are preoccupied with sex.

Weyrich once wrote on his website before Easter that the Jewish people killed Jesus.

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

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

However, Weyrich wanted an organization which would focus on conservative social values.

By the late 1990s, Weyrich declared that social conservatives were no longer a majority having a liberal agenda forced on them by an elite but rather are a dwindling minority that have lost control over the culture ; that traditional culture and the counterculture have traded places.

For example, Weyrich was a supporter of rail and Amtrak had a program on the channel called America on Track ; another program, The New Electric Railway Journal, covered light rail.

It was founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich and other conservative activists to keep a watch on the House Republican leadership, which they saw at the time as too moderate.

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 Weyrich listed as " Publisher Emeritus ".

In early 2000, about a year after the last magazine was published, Weyrich and William S. Lind ( who had been the magazine's Associate Publisher until 1996 ) launched a website where they could continue to post their views and news about rail transit.

After a power struggle which Weyrich lost, NET was rebranded again into " America's Voice ", and the channel abandoned all conservative identity, marketing itself merely as a non-ideological way for the public to make its views known to policymakers.

Among its founding members were: Tim LaHaye, then the head of the Moral Majority, Nelson Bunker Hunt, T. Cullen Davis, William Cies, and Paul Weyrich.

They also had agreements to air programming from an upstart conservative network NET ( National Empowerment Television ) run by Paul Weyrich.

Frustrated with public indifference to the Lewinsky scandal, 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:

This was widely interpreted as Weyrich calling for a retreat from politics, but he almost immediately issued a clarification stating this was not his intent.

In addition to his spinal injury and amputations, Weyrich also suffered from diabetes.

This sparked a firestorm of criticism from other conservatives who accused Weyrich of giving up.