Chad Hills Clings to Lies, Disregards Facts About Online Gambling

The research would reveal how much income the federal government sacrifices by opposing online casinos rather than taxing them.

Shelley Berkley, a Democratic Representative from Nevada, on Wednesday will formally request a study by the House Judiciary Committee to review possible revenues the U.S. could generate if online gambling were regulated across the country.

The research would reveal how much income the federal government sacrifices by opposing online casinos rather than taxing them. Of course, it wouldn't include the costs of attempts to enforce the UIGEA, nor the damage done by violating free trade agreements with other nations. Nor would it delve into the impracticality and waste of an unenforceable prohibition.

Yet Chad Hills of the innocuously named, religious fanatic group Focus on the Family states that conducting this research amounts to promoting online gambling. Does this mean Hills knows the outcome of the study will be to reveal enormous revenues are being passed by to promote a fascist agenda?

Hills refers to online gambling as "...an industry that exists through the exploitation of human weakness for the sole purpose of monetary gain." Yet , according to Sherman Bradley, OCA'S gambling analyst, is that not the perfect description of an industry that demands its followers donate their last dollars to buy the favor of the Lord? Is online gaming, a business which allows choice and attempts to prevent problem gambling, more despicable than born-again preachers, demanding their flock send money to become silver or gold members, and receive a worthless trinket advertised as an icon?

Bradley points out that religious proselytizing has been perhaps the single greatest cause of human suffering and mass murder throughout history. Further, Bradley stated, "Hills just doesn't understand science. A study is done to determine the truth and verify facts, not to support a close-minded decision made before the research is committed."

"In his statement, Hills asserts that gambling decays the social fabric, which is strengthened only by marriage and family. Right there are two propositions stated as fact, without any empirical evidence."

"Perhaps Hills feels more comfortable with the tactics of his colleague, Representative Spencer Bachus, who was censured by the press nationwide for his inventing figures out of thin air to link teenage suicide to online gambling. Since truth and facts don't work for these guys, it looks like imagined assertions shouted in a demagogic fashion have become their only strategy."