Online Gambling Foes Create Excuses to give an explanation for Opposition

The NFL and spiritual groups continue to make use of debunked arguments to oppose regulated online gambling.

The powerful lobbyists resisting the regulation and licensing of online gambling operators continue to make use of debunked and illogical talking points to argue their cause. Evangelical religious groups and sports organizations led by the National Football League prepared for the impending battle over Barney Frank's bill regulating Internet gambling by citing arguments which might be tired, has been disproved, and display a shocking disregard for reality.

The NFL has long taken the location that legal sports betting anywhere rather then the mystical free zone that may be Nevada would corrupt game results. Somehow, the league says that the Frank bill, which excludes sports wagering only as an admission of the NFL's Congressional might, would still threaten its integrity.

"If this (online gambling) were, in fact, legalized, fan interest may well be less concerned with the end result of the sport than on whether the purpose spread is covered," says Jeff Miller, the NFL's full-time lobbyist. Miller doesn't explain the league's embracing fantasy football, which certainly shifts fan interest from game results to individual performance.

"It (online gambling) is likely one of the most dangerous, most invasive type of gambling ever developed," says Chad Hills of Do something about the Family, a fundamentalist religious group. Hills ignores extensive scientific evidence, provided by such notable sources as Harvard Medical School, that online gambling is if truth be told perhaps the least dangerous, mildest type of gambling, sticking to his debunked belief just as his fellows reject evolution, the moon landings, and the speculation of a round Earth.

The NFL doesn't care to talk about the loads of billions already enthusiastic about illegal sports betting, or its own unending, amoral hunger for brand spanking new profits. Neither does Take care of the Family wish to debate its forming an influence base by inciting vulnerable religious persons to backing un-American restrictions on freedom. Each would rather continue to spout nonsense about online gambling, hoping repetition and volume make up for loss of reason.

Published on February 26, 2010 by TomWeston

Read More... [Source: Religious Gambling News]