{"id":46138,"date":"2014-09-30T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_church_says_newman_government_program_fuels_gambling_addiction\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:00:49","slug":"anglican_church_says_newman_government_program_fuels_gambling_addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46138","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church says Newman Government program fuels gambling addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Dean of Brisbane] Dr [Peter] Catt, the chair of the church social responsibilities committee, launched a stinging attack on the Government.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cA business model that depends to a large extent on losses from problem gamblers and the subsequent harm to individuals and families is unethical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven proceeding on the erroneous assumption that harm is in fact limited to a small percentage of the population, this approach effectively validates the great harm done to a few, for the mild pleasure, financial benefit and convenience of the majority.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Dr Catt said the Government policy was exposed as \u201cdeeply destructive\u201d\u009d to both gamblers and their families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/anglican-church-says-newman-government-program-fuels-gambling-addiction\/story-fnihsrf2-1227074390989?nk=a3654ec9dce1ade6b91ea2f755121883\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Dean of Brisbane] Dr [Peter] Catt, the chair of the church social responsibilities committee, launched a stinging attack on the Government. He said: \u201cA business model that depends to a large extent on losses from problem gamblers and the subsequent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46138\">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":[36,39,40,50,395,74,175,204,168,87,114,151,88,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46138","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=46138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}