Evangelist and televangelist, Falwell was the founder of the Moral Majority, Liberty University, and the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Falwell was a long-time leader and lightning rod in the culture wars. He was an outspoken critic of the civil rights movement and later, a supporter of South African Apartheid, but he remains a hero to many who call for the right to life, traditional marriage, and conservative Christian morality as a basis for government policy.