Ohio House Passes Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act

The state of 🇺🇸Ohio is one step closer to enacting the 📜Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act. 

The state’s House of Representatives passed the bill with 62 Republican members voted in favor of the legislation; all 27 Democrats opposed it, the Daily Wire reported.

The bill would allow public schools to teach the “positive influence of religion in history classes. This is focused on Christianity.

State Rep. Gary Click (R) explained the reasoning behind House Bill 486 — also known as the “📜Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act.”

“The bill reaffirms that teachers in public schools and state institutions of higher education, when teaching American history, can include instruction on the positive impacts of religion on American history,” according to a press release from Click.

“The teaching of the historical, positive impact of religion on American history is consistent with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. An accurate and historical account of the influence of Judeo-Christian values on the freedom and liberties ingrained in our culture is imperative to reducing ignorance of American history, hate, and violence within our society,” the bill stated. “Accurate historical instruction regarding verifiable, historical impacts of religion on American history is factual and is not proselytization or a violation of the First Amendment.”