I don't know if you've done much research on Judy Howard's group, Citizens for Excellence in Education. I thought you might be interested in this blurb from Know Your Enemies, published by the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression. Additional information can be obtained from People for the American Way, the American Library Association, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and Skipp Porteous's group, the Institute for First Amendment Studies.

Keep up the great work!

Dr. Robert L. Simonds
President
Citizens for Excellence in Education
P.O. Box 3200
Costa Mesa, CA 92628
714/546-5931

People for the American Way has accurately described Citizens for Excellence in Education (CEE) as "easily the most destructive censorship organization active in the schools today." CEE is the activist arm of a second Robert Simonds organization, the National Association of Christian Educators. Simonds founded CEE in 1983 to implement "our Lord's plans to bring public education back under the control of the Christian community" and to stamp out "the atheist dominated ideology of secular humanism." In 1985, Simonds wrote: "There are 15,700 school districts in America. When we get an active Christian parents committee (CEE) in operation in all districts, we can take complete control of all local school boards." In 1992, CEE claimed to have 120,000 members organized in 925 chapters in all 50 states. CEE has supposedly helped elect 1,965 candidates to school boards nationwide since 1989. It gives wide distribution to political action kits, visual aids, and books such as How to Elect Christians to Public Office ("America is now groaning! Atheistic secular humanist's [sic] should be removed from office and Christians should be elected. We can all then rejoice continually as our children and our nation will be more safe."). CEE has also been particularly zealous in efforts to purge schools and libraries of curricula and books it finds offensive-characterizing most traditional fairy tales, for example, as "occult" and "demonic." CEE's portrayal of the popular "Impressions" reading series ("a massive occultic program with over 822 stories on violence, death, witchcraft, magic, animism, mutilation, child abuse, fear and horror") has won surprisingly widespread support. To receive CEE's Education Newsline and strident subliterate pleas for more money, send a minimal contribution.