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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
8. Wintermute and his claque are no different from Citizens For Decent Literature
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 10:40 PM
Jul 2020
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1177/citizens-for-decent-literature

Citizens for Decent Literature (CDL) was one of the earliest anti-pornography groups in the United States.

Keating believed pornography to be the cause of a good deal of sexually motivated criminal behavior. Through CDL, he sought to inhibit the sale and purchase of obscene materials and to pressure at times indifferent prosecutors, judges, and police officers into enforcing anti-obscenity statutes.

By the end of the 1960s, the group had 300 nationwide chapters and counted four senators and 70 representatives on its honorary committee.

CDL provided legal advice to municipalities seeking to prosecute retailers selling sexually explicit films and publications. Its lawyers prepared and distributed extensive reviews of changes in obscenity legislation to prosecutors around the country and assisted local police and prosecuting attorneys prepare for litigation and appeals in obscenity cases.


Also, the disapproval of the person who touted the endorsement of Republicans over two good Democrats at DU...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028123984#post28

flamin lib (9,074 posts)
28. That's why there is a single issue voting meme going on in the movement.

Don't vote party, vote gun violence. That's why Gabby Gifford's has endorsed two Republicans for senate. The two have consistently voted against the NRA and for her that's the most important issue for the short term.

Even if it is for only one or two election cycles, if the NRA's mythological omnipotence can be defeated and shown for being a mile deep and an inch wide it is worth it.


...isn't exactly a bad thing, imo.

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