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An Ohio state lawmaker who spent years as a Baptist pastor before winning election to the state legislature is pushing a bill that would require public schools to teach the positive impact of “Judeo-Christian” values on American history, naming the legislation after the late conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk.
Gary Click, a 60-year-old Republican serving his third term in the Ohio House after serving as pastor of Fremont Baptist Temple, drafted the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act, or Ohio House Bill 486, and shepherded it through that chamber.
It is now before the state Senate.
The bill seeks to authorize teachers in public schools and instructors at state institutions of higher education to provide instruction on the positive impacts of religion on American history, without making it mandatory. It lists roughly two dozen examples of religion’s role in American civic life, from references to divine power in the Declaration of Independence and the religious affiliations of its signers to the influence of the evangelist Billy Graham.
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Gary Click, a 60-year-old Republican serving his third term in the Ohio House after serving as pastor of Fremont Baptist Temple, drafted the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act, or Ohio House Bill 486, and shepherded it through that chamber.
It is now before the state Senate.
The bill seeks to authorize teachers in public schools and instructors at state institutions of higher education to provide instruction on the positive impacts of religion on American history, without making it mandatory. It lists roughly two dozen examples of religion’s role in American civic life, from references to divine power in the Declaration of Independence and the religious affiliations of its signers to the influence of the evangelist Billy Graham.
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Ohio pastor-turned-lawmaker seeks to pass Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act
An Ohio state lawmaker who spent years as a Baptist pastor before winning election to the state legislature is pushing a bill that would require public schools to teach the positive impact of
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