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Re:CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call by sirclueless on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:52PM (#5573372)
There are certainly Republicans who are all for family values for other reasons besides Christian morals. They equate this with civilization not in contrast with uncivilization, the question for them isn't "civilization vs. savagery" exactly, it's more nearly "civilization vs. decadence." Open homosexuality and abortion call to mind the Roman Empire in its decline, not the Dark Ages.

A really powerful argument in this vein comes from the Nixon tapes. It's very much worth listening to, no matter what your views on the matter are, because I think it really crystallizes why conservatism and the religious right have so much common ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TivVcfSBVSM#t=5m27s

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Re:CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call by lobster_johnson on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:58PM (#5573408)
Do you know if there are transcripts of the Nixon tapes? (Personal quirk, I can't do audio-only media as I just zone out and stop listening.)

Edit: Found it: http://nixontapes.org. It's a lot, which one should I look at?

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Re:CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call by sirclueless on Thursday April 18, 2013 @08:44PM (#5574087)
Here's a transcript of the conversation I linked above.

http://www.csdp.org/research/nixonpot.txt

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