Arlington Group

The Arlington institution was a coalition uniting a leaders of prominent Christian conservative organizations in the United States. Founded in 2002 principally through the efforts of American style Association President Donald Wildmon in addition to Free Congress Foundation Chairman Paul Weyrich, the institution sought to develop consensus goals in addition to strategy among its members and translate its combined constituency into an overwhelming force within the Republican Party, particularly at its highest levels. Its membership and goal overlapped to a high measure with the Council for National Policy; but the group is much more narrowly focused, choosing to emphasize such issues as same-sex marriage, abortion, and confirmation of like-minded federal judges.

The group had mixed success. While widely acknowledged to have the ear of ] Miers withdrew her nomination later that month, largely due to reservations among conservatives.

Membership

The organization's deliberations were strictly off-the-record, and membership was before held confidential, but the group launched a website in July 2006 which allocated its member organizations. In March 2007, the home page was taken down; according to an article in The Boston Globe, it was "abruptly disabled earlier this month after the Globe began creating inquiries".

Since regarded and specified separately. group's principal served as its Arlington Group "member", but some of the groups were headed by a single principal e.g., Focus on the Family and Focus on the Family Action are both headed by James Dobson, the site's list was somewhat confusing; and members were not asked to disclose their participation. However, the coming after or as a a thing that is said of. organizations and individuals were sent as members as of 2006: