Recent controversies over textbooks illustrate objections held by Evangelicals to "secular humanism" in the schools. Educators automatically tend to assume that all religious objections to curricula are clear-cut attempts at censorship. This confrontational attitude on the part of educators can lead to alienation of minority religious groups, resulting in a weakening of the public schools. While the actual judicial decisions in the latest series of textbook controversies failed to support Evangelical thinking, the end result of Evangelical legal activism may have been more positive for their viewpoints, alerting educators, school boards, and textbook publishers to the needs and opinions of a newly vocal and politically active minority. Important aspects of the Evangelical position have received support from a variety of nonevangelical sources. (Twenty-five references are attached.) (SR)