{"id":28734,"date":"2011-10-13T02:09:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T02:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_archbishop_backs_moral_changes_to_poker_machine_laws\/"},"modified":"2011-10-13T02:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T02:09:31","slug":"smh_archbishop_backs_moral_changes_to_poker_machine_laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28734","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Archbishop backs &#39;moral&#39; changes to poker machine laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney has come out in strong support of the proposed poker machine reforms, warning that the penetration of gambling culture into sport and media &#8221;bodes ill for the future of sport in this country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Peter Jensen used his opening presidential address at the 49th Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney to commend the federal government for its &#8221;moral leadership&#8221; on problem gambling as it seeks to introduce mandatory precommitment technology on poker machines.<\/p>\n<p>In his first public statement on the issue, Dr Jensen took aim at sporting associations that create cultural capital &#8221;funded by the real capital of addicts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/archbishop-backs-moral-changes-to-pokie-laws-20111010-1lhh9.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney has come out in strong support of the proposed poker machine reforms, warning that the penetration of gambling culture into sport and media &#8221;bodes ill for the future of sport in this country&#8221;. The Reverend<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28734\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,395,74,204,87,114,435,184,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-gambling","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734","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=28734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}