NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — The blood red moon early on election day was a foreshadowing of things to come in the Buckeye State as the GOP took key races on election night in the House, Senate, and Supreme Court. With all three conservative justices winning their respective races, the State Supreme Court will turn from a 3-4 conservative minority to a 4-3 majority.
“This is evidence when Ohioans are properly informed on issues, they will choose candidates who hold conservative positions like on the sanctity of life,” says Pastor Mark Wireman. Wireman led a group of 112 lead clergy endorsing conservative justices for the State Supreme Court and for lower courts in Tuesday’s general election. The clergy called the election a “matter of life and death.” All five judicial candidates won.
Wireman hopes the State Supreme Court can be used to bring an end to abortion. He points out that in coming days, Governor Mike DeWine will fill the vacancy created by Sharon Kennedy’s election to Chief Justice with a fourth conservative judge.
“Judges play a key role in our society, especially in the post-Roe era. As GOD says in the Book of Isaiah, ‘I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”
In addition to the Supreme Court, Republicans swept statewide races for Governor, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, and Secretary of State. Unofficially the GOP controls the State House by a 64-30 margin and the State Senate by a 25-7 margin. Many of the GOP candidates are pro life advocates.
“This (2022 election results) is evidence when Ohioans are properly informed on issues, they will choose candidates who hold conservative positions like on the sanctity of life,”
Pastor Mark Wireman
Melanie Miller (R) defeated Drew Burge (D) for 67th State District seat by an 70-30% unofficial count. State House District 67 includes all of Ashland County and part of Medina County. Miller is the Executive Director of the Ashland Pregnancy Care Center. She commented, “It goes without saying, the life issue is of utmost importance to me. So of course I’m going to continue being a champion for that issue and for families,”
Meanwhile, Jim Obergefell (D) was defeated in his bid to become a State Rep. for the 89th District. Obergefell was the lead plaintiff against the State of Ohio in a U.S. Supreme Court case that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015. The controversial decision broke over four hundred years of western civilization precedent.
Also in the 2020 midterms, Republicans won ten of the fifteen U.S. Congressional seats. With the new redistricting maps, Congressman Jim Jordan will be representing Richland County where he originally began his career.
Senate Candidate J.D. Vance (R) defeated Tim Ryan to replace Rob Portman in the U.S. Senate.
In statewide issues, Ohioans overwhelmingly chose to prohibit non-citizens from voting in local elections and for public safety to be taken into consideration before determining bail for
Conservative judges on the down ticket also won their respective races. Both conservative candidates for the Fifth District Court of Appeals including Craig Baldwin won, their races. Attorney Beth Owens also won her race for Richland County Common Pleas Domestic Court unofficially by a 61-39% margin.
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Proverbs Chapter 29 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.”
In the election for Ohio State Board of Education last week only one of four candidates endorsed by Ohio Value Voters won their election.
This week there are before the State Board two resolutions resisting the Biden Administration changes to Title IX, which would allow mentally disturbed biological males claiming to be girls (transgenders) to access girls’ bathrooms and showers and participate in girls’ sports. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a comprehensive federal law that has removed many barriers that once prevented people, based on sex, from participating in educational opportunities and careers of their choice.
At the first vote on the resolution at the October State Board meeting was defeated 7-12. It was referred to the Executive Committee and then and three different resolutions resulted. Two are strong, while one was very supportive of the Biden Administrative proposed changes. The SBOE will be meeting tomorrow to possibly vote on one of the three resolutions. Hopefully they will vote for the right resolution because there will be even less chance next year to pass such a resolution with more pro-LGBT board members.
Passing HB 454 (the Saving Adolescence from Experimentation -SAFE – Act) in the Ohio legislature may be a possible legislative remedy to any continued SBOE inaction on the proposed Title IX changes. HB 454 would ban puberty blockers, hormone treatments and gender-change surgery for Ohioans under 18 even with parental consent.