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Old 05-14-2018, 11:09 AM   #7
ISiddiqui
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Originally Posted by PilotMan View Post
I wonder if the morality police will come for this. Will the evangelical right decry the legality of the vice for all? Thirty years ago, churches would have been very up in arms about something like this. Hell, even legalizing gambling at all was a huge religious marker against. Now though? Will it be strongly opposed in red states like KY, where I live? Will they push legislation that bans it outright, under the guise of morality of course? And if they don't, does the hypocrisy show brighter?

A lot of lotteries were initially decried by religious institutions. The state governments outflanked them by designating the proceeds go to things like college scholarships. They may decide to do the same thing with sports gambling.
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