A new cleveland.com investigation highlights something many parents are only starting to realize:
Some of the most influential education policy voices in Ohio aren’t educators — they’re religious lobbying groups.
The article focuses on the Center for Christian Virtue, a Christian public policy organization that has rapidly gained influence at the Statehouse and is now shaping conversations around education, curriculum, and school funding.
This matters.
Because when religious advocacy groups are writing education policy, it doesn’t stay abstract.
It shows up in:
• Curriculum pushes framed as “values”
• Expansion of religious schooling pipelines
• Policies that blur the line between church and state
We’re seeing this pattern nationwide — and Ohio is one of the clearest examples.
Public schools should be shaped by educators, families, and constitutional principles — not religious lobbying groups with a policy agenda.
That’s exactly why this work matters.
What people are saying:
- Facebook User: They have all sorts of money for lobbying but not for soup kitchens and shelters.
Jesus wept.
- Facebook User: And their office is across the street from the state house. Convenient location for an assault on the first amendment.
- Facebook User: Just look at the disaster Columbus is and you can see that in plain sight. They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
- Facebook User: This is the same hate group that led the fight against marriage equality. Now grooming students in Nationalistic Christianity (Nat-c) through KKKhristian groups like LIfEwise.
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