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To: Texas_Jarhead

No problem with them having positions on moral issues, the key word is, moral issues. Legalized gambling is entirely an issue regarding free enterprise and economic concerns. What kept the Biloxi strip humming was the fact that every weekened, the garages of those casinos would be filled with people from Metro Mobile and Metro Pensacola, who had driven to the nearest center of legalized gaming.

If the Baptists would just allow us to legalize it in our corner of the state, we're not asking for casinos in areas that firmly hold onto all the teachings of the SBC, we just want casinos in the city, and maybe on the beach. I think if we did that, the business in Mississippi would evaporate overnight, at least on the shore, and then we could take their place as the gaming mecca of the South, with all the benefits that go along with it.

God forbid this would happen though, because the Hank Erwin's of the world have to dictate their will to everybody or else there is some evil in the world.


6 posted on 06/25/2006 2:15:01 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691 (6-6-06 A victory for reason)
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To: AzaleaCity5691
"No problem with them having positions on moral issues, the key word is, moral issues. Legalized gambling is entirely an issue regarding free enterprise and economic concerns."

Not according to the theology of the SBC and other groups.
9 posted on 06/25/2006 2:43:44 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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