{"id":109750,"date":"2022-02-15T08:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109750"},"modified":"2022-02-14T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T21:50:14","slug":"ct-super-bowl-betting-is-a-7-6-billion-problem-fewer-evangelicals-care-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109750","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Super Bowl Betting Is a $7.6 Billion Problem Fewer Evangelicals Care About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\">A <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26058374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> in Spain showed a significant increase in \u201cyoung pathological gamblers\u201d after the country legalized online gambling, adding that the immediacy and accessibility of online gambling made it \u201cmore addictive than any other type of game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Despite their gloom about the immediate impact, the Christians who worked on the issue for decades are a bit more optimistic about the future. \u201cThis is the third historical wave of gambling in America,\u201d said Grey. \u201cIt has a boom-bust cycle to it. Why? Because it doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Sports betting has surged recently without any curbs. That makes the problems with gambling more visible to Americans, he thinks, and will spur bipartisan interest in regulating the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">He remembered in 1999 arranging a meeting between Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and Focus on the Family president James Dobson to discuss gambling, and the two wrote a joint letter calling gambling \u201cthe bane of millions of Americans.\u201d Nader targeted Republicans who supported casino interests, and Dobson targeted Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cIt\u2019s that\u2019s kind of movement that\u2019s needed today \u2026 the same right-left combination, this is something we agree on,\u201d said Grey. \u201cLet\u2019s call for more regulation and get advertising under control. Those are doable things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2022\/february\/super-bowl-betting-gambling-evangelicals.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The American Gambling Association has projected a record 31.4 million Americans will put down $7.6 billion on today&#39;s LA Rams\u2013Cincinnati Bengals matchup. <\/p>\n<p>Why so few evangelicals are opposing sports gambling&#39;s rapid proliferation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperBowl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SuperBowl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PUlfAjWKzN\">https:\/\/t.co\/PUlfAjWKzN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1492955235882577925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in Spain showed a significant increase in \u201cyoung pathological gamblers\u201d after the country legalized online gambling, adding that the immediacy and accessibility of online gambling made it \u201cmore addictive than any other type of game.\u201d Despite their gloom<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109750\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109754,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109750\/revisions\/109754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}