Casino Gambling Web Representatives Headed to Washington!

[meleader2]

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[TheEngineer]

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I think FoF will help us double the signatures. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Kodfish]

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First and foremost, I am a Christian, I believe in God and my Country!

I am an AMERICAN, not some foreigner and I lobby my congress people all the time and I oppose now and opposed in the past the UIGEA.

Equally important I believe in a separation of churches and government and I believe in the reverse as well.

I am a republican though given the current state government under your influence I will continue working to, as I did in the recent mid term elections, prevent the freedoms of AMERICANS to be restricted and taken away based on a misguided and misrepresented religious philosophy!

I also believe in personal freedoms. We, the United States, are not now nor have we ever been a religious theocracy. If that is the type of government you wish, I can suggest several in the Middle East that will welcome you.

More importantly I believe it is very UN-godly to hijack religion to promote personal causes, causes that are not in anyway considered a sin in ANY Bible I have or have read.

Misusing religion and invoking God and Jesus in manners such as you are will only land you in places I do not think you want to be.

Then again, religion as you manage it is a VERY big business and surely it provides you with a very good income.

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obg

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OBG, this is very well written. Awesome stuff.

[Jerry D]

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OK 2&2 people.
It is TIME to REALLY be heard. Heard NOT just in Washington, but heard at FoF as well.

We ARE AMERICANS not some foreigners and we need to tell FoF / Citizen link just that!

http://family.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/famil...amp;p_lva=14190

My letter to them:

First and foremost, I am a Christian, I believe in God and my Country!

I am an AMERICAN, not some foreigner and I lobby my congress people all the time and I oppose now and opposed in the past the UIGEA.

Equally important I believe in a separation of churches and government and I believe in the reverse as well.

I am a republican though given the current state government under your influence I will continue working to, as I did in the recent mid term elections, prevent the freedoms of AMERICANS to be restricted and taken away based on a misguided and misrepresented religious philosophy!

I also believe in personal freedoms. We, the United States, are not now nor have we ever been a religious theocracy. If that is the type of government you wish, I can suggest several in the Middle East that will welcome you.

More importantly I believe it is very UN-godly to hijack religion to promote personal causes, causes that are not in anyway considered a sin in ANY Bible I have or have read.

Misusing religion and invoking God and Jesus in manners such as you are will only land you in places I do not think you want to be.

Then again, religion as you manage it is a VERY big business and surely it provides you with a very good income.

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obg

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Very nice letter. This is one reason why large numbers of Republicans like myself have left the party. There is an excellent book called "Invasion of the Party Snatchers" (which was written by Victor Gold, a lifelong Republican and former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush and he was also a top aide of Barry Goldwater) that tells how the religious right has taken over and now controls the Republican party. The really scary thing - even if you leave out poker - is that these Republicans have stated that they DO NOT BELIEVE IN SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. They don't only want to ban internet poker, they want to outlaw ALL land based casinos, they want to outlaw ALL erotic materials EVEN PLAYBOY, and want Hollywood to go back to the way it was in the 1930's or so when you couldn't use any 'curse' words, you couldn't show any nudity, and so forth. The Religious Republican right really wants the same society the Taliban does.

[eddytom]

Here is the next response from Casino Gambling Web to Focus on the Family....

http://www.casinogamblingweb.com/gamblin...sons_46720.html

[twoblacknines]

Signed the petition....why are there not more signatures though. Not even 5,000 yet and there are way more people on 2+2 alone than that. Come on people it takes 2 seconds to sign and you don't even have to leave your computer.

[TheEngineer]

Looks like the FoF Alert has helped out! They posted the alert on June 29th:

Signatures.........Date

183.............2-Jul-07, 7:53 pm ET
12....................1-Jul-07
15...................30-Jun-07
24...................29-Jun-07
20...................28-Jun-07
5.....................27-Jun-07
0.....................26-Jun-07
8.....................25-Jun-07
14...................24-Jun-07
30...................23-Jun-07
15...................22-Jun-07
30...................21-Jun-07

Thanks Chad! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I guess next time we need something, we should "warn" FoF! Hehe.

This is what sucks about being on the defensive. When FoF publicizes their issues, it works against them. If they stay quiet, it works against them. This is where we were a couple of years ago. We're much better on offense.

[oldbookguy]

I am glad everyone here found this petition, I signed a long time ago and just figured all here already had.

obg

[TheEngineer]

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I am glad everyone here found this petition, I signed a long time ago and just figured all here already had.

obg

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I think many of us shy away from these because we don't know who runs them or what they're using the data for. We know this one is legit, and they're actually using the results for something that will help us.

I see they're almost up to 5,000 now (4858). Hopefully it will spread by word of mouth.

[TheEngineer]

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Signed the petition....why are there not more signatures though. Not even 5,000 yet and there are way more people on 2+2 alone than that. Come on people it takes 2 seconds to sign and you don't even have to leave your computer.

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We just passed 5,000. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]