Dan Cypra interviews Chad Hills of Focus on the Family. I hope everyone will read it, as it provides insight into how our opposition thinks:

Focus on the Family Reacts to Barney Frank Internet Gambling Bills
by Dan Cypra

http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/focus-on-the-family-reacts-to-barney-frank-internet-gambling-bills-2454

Dr. James Dobson founded Focus on the Family in 1977, an organization that works to strengthen family bonds. Recently, the organization has come out against Congressman Barney Frank’s (D-MA) Internet Gambling Regulation Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act, HR 2267. The bill outlines a comprehensive framework to license regulate the internet gambling industry in the United States. Poker News Daily sat down with Focus on the Family’s gambling spokesperson Chad Hills to discuss the new measure.

Poker News Daily: Explain the general response of Focus on the Family to Barney Frank’s comprehensive internet gambling legislation.

Hills: We see gambling as something that causes addiction and it’s an industry that seeks to exploit the weaknesses of people in order to gain money. What we see from our perspective is an estimated 15 million people who are either problem or pathological gamblers in the U.S.; that’s no small number to ignore. What concerns us is that addiction is followed by bankruptcy. When someone goes bankrupt and they hit the bottom of the barrel, they get desperate. They have nothing else to lose and so turn criminal to keep feeding the addiction or to pay off their debts.........