[Skallagrim]

The US voting population consistently breaks down like this:

Vast majority does not give a damn about gambling one way or another (as long as you dont build a casino next to their house/neighborhood).

A sizable group believes in personal freedom or just plain likes to gamble.

Another sizable group believes gambling is dangerous (nanny staters) or sinful (FoF types) and should be stopped.

Its all about getting that vast majority to either go with you or to not care when a politician pulls a fast one to get the support of one of the sizable groups (thats how the UIGEA got passed - and thats most likely how it will get reversed, if it does).

Your conversation partner is simply too influenced by the success of the religious right in recent years; they are not the majority however, and their power is fading fast thanks to all the things their republican panderers have messed up over the last 6-7 years.

Skallagrim