I know I'm not helping the spam issue or being productive but the new lolcows are something else
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And my point is that that's false, Christians aren't a bigger or even equivalent threat compared to leftards. If they were, the '80s (when America had a far more moralistic President who was actually, and enthusiastically, backed by the Christian right and gave them more power than Clinton ever did) would be a vastly more forgettable and more puritanical decade than it was. I literally just provided an example for all the categories you brought up - video games (Sark vs. Thompson and their consequent effects on the industry), music (the PMRC) and movies (Disney Wars) - as to why that's the case.
Hell, even the infamous 'tabletop bad/D&D will drag you to Hell' moral panic wasn't started by the Christian right, at worst Evangelicals just joined a bandwagon which first got rolling thanks not to them but to CBS' 60 Minutes special on the subject and Mazes and Monsters (a movie directed by Steven Stern and based on a book by Rona Jaffe, neither of whom seem to be right-wingers or even Christians if you take a crack at their Early Life).
Furthermore it was zealous Catholics Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito who helped strike down California's ban on the sale of 'violent' vidya to kids under a certain age, and the former (probably the most hard-right Justice the country has had post-FDR years, right up there alongside Thomas) penned the majority opinion. The person who came up with that law was not a Republican, much less any other sort of right-winger, or a Christian himself.