Mission America (Columbus, Ohio)

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Mission America, based in Columbus, Ohio, USA, is a Christian public policy and commentary organization founded by Linda Harvey. The organization's major area of focus is homosexuality from a conservative Christian viewpoint, particularly as it relates to American youth, condemning lesbian and gay relationships as "very, very wrong" in all cases. In addition, the group advocates Christianity over other religions in public life, being particularly opposed to paganism and feminist spirituality, while providing a range of apologetics for Christianity.

"Truth at School" is an associated web site aimed towards parents and students. The group's printed newsletter, Choice 4 Truth, targets young people with their anti-LGBT, anti-feminist, and anti-pagan message.

Linda Harvey has close ties to Concerned Women for America, and is a regular contributor to its web site. Her organization is an active participant in the "Day of Truth" effort, an Alliance Defense Fund anti-LGBT initiative intended to counter the "Day of Silence" protest ostensibly against discrimination targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people.

The group's latest major campaign, the "School Risk Audit" program, launched in April 2006. This effort to "audit" schools for any signs of "promotion of homosexuality" is to be conducted jointly by Mission America, the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, and other, smaller groups. Key warning flags in these audits include anti-bullying programs that include LGBT students and any form of anti-discrimination protection for lesbian and gay students, faculty, and staff. The plan has received strong support from Exodus Mandate, a fundamentalist group whose platform is that the public school system is too secular to salvage, and which encourages its membership to pull their students from all public schools.