the U.S. National Endowment of the Arts was attacked by conservative politians, by commentator Patrick Buchanan and the Reverend Donald Wildman. The attack was initiated by Rev. Wildman who accused the NEA of using taxpayers' money in a wasteful manner. The American Family Association, of which Wildman was president, lobbied for Congress to approve a new regulation for the NEA so that it "shall clearly indicate that obscenity is without artistic merit, is not protected speech, and shall not be funded.