On January 10, 1963, Democrat Congressman Albert Sydney Herlong, Jr. (FL-4th) read into the Congressional Record the 45 Communist goals for America, which included:
“17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under communist attack …
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural, healthy.’
27. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a ‘religious crutch’ …
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them ‘censorship’ and a violation of free speech and free press …
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights …
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of ‘separation of church and state.'”