One of the state’s most controversial yet influential organizations – the Center for Christian Virtue (CCV) – takes the stage this week at the City Club of Cleveland, and Today in Ohio podcast hosts talked Monday about why the appearance is important.
The episode, pegged from a Laura Hancock profile, highlighted how CCV transformed from a small Cincinnati-based group focused on obscenity laws into a powerhouse that now shapes policy across Ohio. As Leila Atassi explained, their rise was both methodical and strategic:
“This is an uncomfortable moment, but it’s an important one because of how normalized this kind of power has become. Groups like the center of Christian Virtue didn’t win Ohio just through culture wars. They really did it by mastering kind of the boring stuff. The proximity to lawmakers and policy fluency and relentless focus on state government.”…