Meeting Notes

Find any notes or hand outs used dur­ing our meet­ings. This to hold down oper­at­ing costs and hope­ful­ly save some trees. Just read the notes here and/or down­load notes to your com­put­er or smart­phone.

December 2023

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Rep. Derek Merrin — son of a well known anti-LGBTQ pas­tor from Monclova Township. Seems
to have not fall­en far from that tree.
Rep. Josh Williams intro­duced an anti-drag bill and is seen as Merrin’s right hand man.

Rep. Gary Click is a pas­tor of a Baptist church in Fremont. Introduced bill to ban gen­der
affirm­ing care. Also sup­ports con­ver­sion ther­a­py and claims to have

SHoWLE President Doug Berger sent emails to the NW Ohio mem­bers who signed on to the let­ter (he sent these as a pri­vate per­son and not on behalf of SHoWLE. Here is the text he sent to all six of them:

I read in the media and read the let­ter you signed on to, that says you plan to do all you can to sub­vert the will of the vot­ers who passed State Issue 1 on November 7th by 57%. You are an elect­ed offi­cial who took an oath to defend the state con­sti­tu­tion. If the out­come of the state issue 1 vote is too much for you that you want to sub­vert the will of the vot­ers then you should resign your office.

He only got a response from Rep. Williams’ office:

Rep. Williams is a proud pro-life advo­cate, but he does respect the results of the Issue 1 elec­tion and will not act to repeal it or remove it from the court’s juris­dic­tion. The let­ter does not any­where state that those who sign the let­ter intend to over­turn Issue 1, cer­tain­ly Rep. Williams does not at all have that inten­tion. Thank you for reach­ing out, I am glad to be able to pro­vide some clar­i­fi­ca­tion on this issue.

Here is the video we watched dur­ing the meet­ing. The Q & A starts approx, at the 44 minute mark