My beef would be with a strange adult coming up to my kid without my permission. I'll ask you the same question I asked someone else. What if your kid came home from the park bearing literature from the Mormon Church or a Muslim Outreach or Christian Scientists, and explained how the nice man or lady had told them all about it. Wouldn't you be a bit annoyed?
We are living in an era where no child is safe anywhere by himself or herself. In fact in many parts of the country an adult alone is unsafe. Also, I wouldn’t trust my child in some public schools either. A captive audience there (mandatory at that) that must regurgitate what is being fed or suffer the consequences (i.e. bad grade or met with sarcasm for not going along with anti God social mores). Satan knows his days are numbered and is unleashing the best he has. . . keeping the Gospel (Good News) from children. In our neck of the woods CEF is a positive thing. Oh yeah, what about the Girl Scouts and now Boy Scouts with their social agenda. I would certainly be in attendance at those meetings.
Indeed yes, but as said, this is not a free speech issue, but that what is best. If kids came home with a cartoon about how Ronald Regan was best for the country, kids to grandpa, i would be happy, but not if it was Jimmy Carter.
Outreach by CEF is right because Christ is good, and is as right here as it would be in a Communist country. If you oppose Christ, i can see why you would oppose Christian outreach to them, unless it is the mere aspect of the form as per the atheist's charge.