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Posted At : February 27, 2009 09:34 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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Today's Gambling in Space has an excellent take-down of the hypocrisies rife amidst the cant of Dr. James Dobson and other anti-gambling zealots. As David Matthews points out, the charade of OK-ing gambling as long as it's in a moat or an a riverboat implicitly connotes that God's down with gambling, provided you don't do it on land.
My favorite line from the Focus on the Family jeremiad is, "Preliminary research indicates that a third or more of gambling revenues come from problem and pathological gamblers." I've never seen any study that came to that 33%-plus conclusion. Estimates of the prevalence of disordered gambling fall in the 1%-10% range (with the American Gaming Association not surprisingly favoring the lower number), nowhere near Dobson's alarmist scenario. "Preliminary research" in this case appears to be code for "stuff we just pulled out of our butt."
Update: Dobson is stepping down from FoF, but it's merely a cosmetic change. His sanctimonious utterances will continue to flood the airwaves for years to come.
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