George twice served as Governor of the West Virginia Democratic Youth Conference , and attended the 1976 Democratic National Convention as an alternate delegate . He moved to the right in the 1980s , largely due to his views on abortion , and left the Democratic Party as a result of what he saw as its increasingly strong commitment to legal abortion and its public funding , and his growing skepticism about the effectiveness of large scale government-run social welfare projects in Appalachia and other low income rural and urban areas . George founded the American Principles Project , which aims to create a grass-roots movement around his ideas . He is a past chairman of the National Organization for Marriage , an advocacy group opposed to same-sex marriage , and co-founder of the Renewal Forum , an organization fighting the sexual trafficking and commercial exploitation of women and children
1976 Democratic National Convention
1976 Democratic National Convention
Robert P. George