🚨 Ohio has the Center for Christian Virtue. Texas has Texas Values.

A few days ago, we told you that CCV is not operating alone. It is part of a national network of state-level organizations working to move a conservative Christian policy agenda through legislatures, churches, schools and elections.

👏🏻So let’s get specific.

Texas Values is the Texas state ally listed by Family Policy Alliance—the same national policy network that lists Ohio’s Center for Christian Virtue. Family Policy Alliance says it has nearly 40 state allies across the country. Different names. Same network.
And just like CCV in Ohio, education is central to the work Texas Values is doing.

Texas Values says its policy team was at the Texas Capitol every day during the 2025 legislative session. The organization says its staff researched legislation, spoke with lawmakers, testified more than 150 times and played a “vital role” in passing bills.

What did that agenda include?

➡️ Ten Commandments in every public-school classroom

Texas Values promoted SB 10, which requires Texas public elementary and secondary schools to display a specific version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The law immediately faced constitutional challenges, but Texas Values and its ally First Liberty Institute continued urging school districts to display them.

➡️ A daily prayer or Bible-reading period in public schools

Texas Values backed SB 11, which allows districts and charter schools to establish a daily period for students and employees to pray or read the Bible. Texas Values branded it the “Coach Joe Kennedy/Prayer in Schools Bill.”

➡️ Public money for private education

Texas Values celebrated SB 2, Texas’ education savings account program. The law provides public funding that can be used for private-school tuition and other approved educational expenses—creating another pathway for public money to flow into private, including religious, education.

➡️ Restrictions on what public schools may teach

Texas Values promoted SB 12, which prohibits certain instruction and guidance related to sexual orientation and gender identity, restricts DEI practices and expands what is framed as parental control over a child’s “moral, religious, and educational upbringing.”

➡️ Greater control over public-school libraries

Texas Values supported SB 13, which expands parental and school-board authority over library materials and creates mechanisms for local councils to recommend whether books should be approved, restricted or removed.

➡️ State control over instructional materials

Texas Values highlighted HB 100, which returned authority over the selection of public-school instructional materials to the elected State Board of Education.

🚩But the work does not stop with lobbying.

Texas Values operates the Church Ambassador Network of Texas, which connects churches and public officials. During the 2025 session, the network distributed personalized Bibles to the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and every member of the Texas Legislature. Texas Values also distributed more than 3,000 legislative guides and brought elected officials and activists together for its Texas Faith & Family Day.

The organization openly says its goals include:

▪️Displaying the Ten Commandments and other religious content
▪️Expanding religious expression in public schools
▪️Securing access and benefits for religious clubs on school property
▪️Protecting political activity from the pulpit
▪️Fighting what it calls the “religious censorship” of students and teachers

➡️Ohio’s CCV is not an isolated Ohio organization.
➡️Texas Values is not an isolated Texas organization.

They are state-level political operations connected through a national policy network. They mobilize churches, pressure lawmakers, testify on legislation, influence curriculum, redirect public education funding and work to place their particular religious worldview into public policy.

In Ohio, that agenda helped create mandatory access for programs like LifeWise during the public-school day.

In Texas, it helped produce Ten Commandments mandates, school prayer legislation, curriculum restrictions, library controls and publicly funded private-school accounts.

Different names. Different states. The same larger movement. Pay attention.

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