• LifeWise, which ministers the Bible to public school students during release time, claims religious exemption from a workplace retaliation investigation by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.
• Former LifeWise employee Rachel Snell alleges the organization pressured her to falsify work hours and offered cash settlements to silence her.
• LifeWise asserts its right to make employment decisions without government interference, citing its religious mission.
• Snell claims LifeWise's religious exemption claim is dishonest and seeks changes to the organization's financial policies.

LifeWise, which teaches the Bible to public school students, is claiming that it is exempt from a workplace retaliation investigation and potential lawsuit on the grounds that it is a religious denomination.

The filing comes amid a dispute between LifeWise and a former employee who claims that LifeWise was violating labor laws and that the organization had attempted to pay for her silence. The former employee, Rachel Snell, said that the Ohio Supreme Court filing is LifeWise's latest attempt to make her case go away after she turned down cash settlements.

"They're attacking me personally so that I will shut up — because it didn't work to offer me money," Snell said. "I feel like it's going to expose more of their greed, because this is just a symptom of it."

According to a June 5 filing with the Ohio Supreme Court, Hilliard-based LifeWise is asking the court to prohibit the Ohio Civil Rights Commission...

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