Re: Focus on the Family [censored] Warning About the 6/8 IGREA Hearing
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Anyway I suspect that it will be very difficult to win over religious organisations to a liberalisation of gambling law, I doubt it is worth the effort and should not be a priority.
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Agree 100%. I suspect it would be IMPOSSIBLE to win over the religious right, so it's no one's goal or priority here.
At Friday's hearings, a representative said the Bible is actually pro-gambling (I think it's neutral myself, but I'll take "pro", certainly [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] ), and the Baptist minister/father of a bank robber nodded in agreement! That's all we're talking about. It's not about convincing the religious right; it's about convincing everyone else that the religious right have it wrong in regards to gambling.
By the way, when I say "religious right", I'm referring to a small minority of Christians who wish to legislate their ideas of morality (Bible-based and otherwise) on others. Most Christians are kind and decent people who have no desire to put you in jail for violating their personal beliefs. It's only an extreme minority of Christians, and criticizing them is not "anti-Christian", as some here have claimed.
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