Re: The Future of Gambling in Mississippi

Maybe they should build Mississippi churches on stilts in the water?
--flip,

Chris wrote:

I lived in Gulfport for almost 10 years, and I've also lived in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas.

The "conservative, churchgoing public" are led by their ministers (or priests or clergy or cult-leaders or whatever). Opposition to gambling has absolutely nothing to do with the Christian Bible. It has everything to do with "one more quarter in the slot machine is one less quarter in the collection basket".

And, from my limited observation of many Southern Protestant Christian religions (and perhaps some Catholic dioceses), it is preferred that people pay to be told how bad they are (and perhaps how guilty they should feel) rather than people pay to have fun and get free drinks. (Heaven forbid people have a good time, feel good about themselves and come out ahead!)

Yo! Gimme money and cleanse yourself of sin! Avoid the evil casinos. You give your money to the devil! Can't you see how your preacher looks just like God and your dealer looks just like Satan? Every month you don't give the Church its 10% is a month that God takes a jewel out of your crown (or takes some fluff out of your cloud or downgrades you to a neighborhood by the levee that the Army Corps of Engineers okayed...) (or maybe to a neighborhood that has less asbestos...)

Anyway. the Church has a lot of buildings to build and we can't have casinos competing for the land. Our congregation has to provide services to take care of the poor and less fortunate and to educate children. What? Income Taxes? Well, yes tax money is SUPPOSED to go for that, but the government just can't do it as well as we can. So give us another 10%, and God will smile on you and we will improve on the government's efforts (after administrative overhead including housing, transportation, food, salaries, dead fetus' signs, white crosses and bingo cards).

I was raised Catholic. Why the hell the dioceses don't seize on the opportunity to bargain with the State for their own casinos I'll never understand. Look at the Indian Nations. They opened casinos, make a ton of money, provide free medical and social services, and still count a bunch of directionless, dependent and hopelessly screwed up people among their Nations. I think the model holds well for Churches.

Chris




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From the Casino City Times:

Bible-thumping Christian fundamentalists are likely to have a major say in the future of the gaming industry when the Mississippi Legislature meets this week. To placate the conservative, churchgoing public that opposes gambling altogether, Mississippi 15 years ago limited casino operations to structures over water. The idea was to keep them off the tree-lined avenues where parishioners congregate. The wreckage left by Hurricane Katrina has reopened the issue, and gaming opponents are plotting a spellbinding debate on whether gambling should be legal at all.

--flip, 





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