LYNCHBURG, Va. — Jerry Falwell, co-founder of the defunct Moral Majority, has formed The Faith and Values Coalition, which he said will “maintain an evangelical revolution of voters” with Christian values in mind.
“Essentially, TFVC is a 21st-century resurrection of Moral Majority,” he said in a statement released Nov. 9.
Falwell, 71, intends to serve four years as national chairman. Author and theologian Tim LaHaye, known for the “Left Behind” series, will serve as board chairman, while Falwell’s son, Jonathan Falwell, will be executive director. Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, a legal organization based in Orlando, Fla., that is known for its support of conservative causes, has been named vice chairman.
Falwell, a Lynchburg, Va., minister and chancellor of Liberty University, said the group is committed to helping President Bush have a successful second term but also is looking ahead to the next election. The 2008 election of a president who is socially, fiscally and politically conservative is one of three primary objectives, along with confirmation of pro-life judges and passage of an amendment to the constitution declaring marriage as the union of a man and a woman .
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