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Citizens for Decent Literature was a pro-
censorship Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments ...
advocacy body founded in 1956 in
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by the Roman Catholic anti-pornography campaigner
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which advocated reading classics, not "smut". Many priests were also involved in this organization. It was later renamed a number of times to various names, the best known of which was Citizens for Decency through Law. It would grow to 300 chapters and 100,000 members nationwide and become the largest anti-pornography organization in the nation. Over the following 20 years the organization mailed some 40 million letters on behalf of its position and had filed ''
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'' briefs. Under the name Citizens for Decency through Law, the CDL was still active as of 2002, although it did not have a website.


See also

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Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications The Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications was a Protestant pro-censorship, anti- pornography advocacy group in the United States. It was a contemporary of the Roman Catholic National Organization for Decent Literature and the National Leg ...
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National Legion of Decency The National Legion of Decency, also known as the Catholic Legion of Decency, was a Catholic group founded in 1934 by Archbishop of Cincinnati, John T. McNicholas, as an organization dedicated to identifying objectionable content in motion pictu ...
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National Organization for Decent Literature The National Organization for Decent Literature was an American pressure group active in campaigning for the censorship of literature. A successor organization to the National Legion of Decency, it was largely led by Roman Catholic priests. The NOD ...


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