I want to give a different view of FOF than that contained in all the snarky and somewhat anti-Christian comments above. As posters here who also have read the SMP forum over time know, I am a Catholic Christian, and a conservative one. I however, unlike fundamentalists, do not in general have a problem with gambling (and my views on same can be found in the archived theread
here ).
Instead of just opposing FOF's efforts here because of the general anti-religious mindset some of you have, why not instead rebut their points on facts and logic? The correct way to do that is to differentiate poker from other forms of gambling, note that we support efforts to limit and help with gambling addictions, and to make it clear that we view this as a matter of the right of individuals to spend their money as they please. Same as with all the women who have 500 pairs of shoes and guys that have 1000 ties. And point out that to maintain otherwise, that they should be spending equal efforts to limit compulsive shopping and limiting the predatory practices of banks in regards to credit cards.
A lot of this fundamentalist anti-gambling rhetoric rests on wrong facts and illogical arguments (like "first comes gambling then prostitution and drugs and more crime, etc., etc."), and we as 2+2'ers who supposedly think better than the average american, should be pointing out those factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies. Because once we do that, then all they are left with is "we believe gambling is a sin and that we should impose that belief on others".
So the more productive approach is to do just that, i.e. stip all the BS away from their arguments and leave them with just the one that personal morality should be imposed by law even when same doesn't harm others.
And note that this manner of interacting with and discussing FOF is all the more necessary because of their political clout, and because Dr. Dobson isn't just one of those hustlers in clerical garb who only is out for a buck. He is a sincere Christian who hasn't had personal scandals that make it easy to attack him personally. So engage him and his followers in the political arena with better thinking and I guarantee that many Christians won't be as insistant as some are on imposing their beliefs when the other arguments that are piled on top of same are shown to be faulty. And making it clear that plenty of religious believers don't agree with them on this issue takes a lot of wind from their sails.