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171 Clergyman Encourage Ohioans to "VOTE NO " on Deceptive Issue 1

On November 7th, 2023, Ohioans will decide on Issue 2 whether to legalize Recreational Marijuana, or whether to “VOTE NO” to safeguard Ohio’s future. First it was legalizing Medical Marijuana legislatively, now the cannabis industry wants Recreational Marijuana codified into state law. The goal of the cannabis industry is crystal clear- it wants to decriminalize all illicit drug use, which will only cloud Ohio’s future. Lead clergymen from 142 congregations across 20 counties respond.

Clergy representing one hundred-fifty congregations across from North Central Ohio hold a press conference at the BibleWalk Museum outside Mansfield declaring 2018 as the "Year of the Bible." Announcing the results of a outreach survey, the clergy report that fifty-eight local churches provided aid to over ninety different nations around the world between the recession years of 2014-2017.

After Federal Court Judge Timothy Black struck down an Ohio law protecting unborn babies with Down Syndrome from abortion, the faith community across North Central Ohio sprang to action. On May 20th, 2018 108 Clergy held a press conference outside the Richland County Courthouse issuing a proclamation calling for resistance to, and the dismantling of judicial tyranny. The clergy point to the Ten Commandments as the social compact that can bring society together and bring Constitutional jurisprudence.

Clergymen representing one hundred and twenty congregation throughout the Buckeye Bible Belt in Richland, Crawford, Ashland, Morrow, Knox & Wayne counties hold a press conference in Lexington, Ohio calling Ohioans to prayer and fasting to petition the LORD of Hosts to heal their land at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontlines Ohio captures the thirty-minute press conference on March 25, 2020.