John Schmitz and his wife Mary campaigned vociferously against sex education in the public schools. Mary had her own TV show and was known as the “West Coast Phyllis Schlafly.” All this came to an end when John’s extra-marital affair and extra children came to light in an exceptionally lurid manner in 1982. John steadfastly refused to support the children and refused custody when their mother died in 1994. They were taken in by their mother’s friend, the psychic Jeanne Dixon, then became wards of the state when she, too, died in 1997. Schmitz himself lived 4 more years after that, apparently without the slightest pang of conscience.