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Southern Baptists
should be grateful
that Bill Frist
restricts online
gambling The majority of Southern Baptist support Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R) who, last we checked, was listed with 30-1 odds to become the next President of the United States at Sportsbook.com. Chances are they support him even more so now that he was successful at getting internet gambling restricted while ensuring Southern Baptists can still bet on horses and their state lotteries. CasinoGamblingWeb.com, which has been on top of the news when it comes to last Friday night's late night "sneakeroo" (Frist attaching an internet gambling bill to the all important Port Security bill) reports that the Senate Majority Leader wrote a letter to his Southern Baptist supporters. |
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In it he writes: "The new law (banning internet gambling) passed because members of the pro-family movement -- including a great many Southern Baptists -- brought the issue to the attention of both Democrats and Republicans." Frist claims underage children who steal their parents credit card can easily access an online gambling site today and start betting away the limit on that card. A 60 Minutes report airing just a few weeks ago (repeat) suggested otherwise. It took nearly 5 attempts for the son of a 60 Minutes producer to access a gambling website with his dad's credit card. Most - if not nearly all of these sites - require more verification (driver's license copy, etc..) than the majority of mortgage companies in existence today. But what has some Southern Baptists baffled is Frist's carve-out niche for online horse racing and lotteries. A child who loves ponies may be more enticed to log onto internet websites like Youbet.com then say some poker website. Gambling is gambling and if you're gonna try to ban internet gambling, ban it all - including horse racing and state lotteries. The way we see it (and everyone who has been in contact with the Gambling911.com website sees it), Frist was trying to appease the powerful horse racing industry at the expense of Southern Baptists he wants so badly to protect from the ills of online gambling. While we commend his efforts at trying to safeguard the Southern Baptists, this is akin to prohibiting Jeffrey Dahmer from babysitting your kids in exchange for Mark Foley. WTF? Yes it's me, Jenny Woo, trying to look at this from a more "intellectual" point of view then the typical "fluff" -as my editor likes to put it - that you are accustomed to reading from me. And hell, on a Friday night no less. I think I should have stayed in Norway! Listen, I grew up in Pensacola, Florida, with Southern Baptists all around me and I don't recall any of them telling me I was going to hell for betting on college football games. We love our college teams and we love to bet on them as well. The only thing Bill Frist did to help this reporter was keep my ADT at bay. Never a dull moment this past week in the world of internet gambling. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to get laid! Oh....wait.....I forgot! I'm not married. Maybe Frist will stick a bill to ban pre-marital sex on the next Homeland Security bill that's about to go through Congress. lol ---- Jenny Woo, www.gambling911.com Originally published October 7, 2006 2:41 am ET
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