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Lds Position On Gambling - Page 3

As badly as I need a car, I still would not buy a raffle ticket. I hadn't thought of the response that JB gave: to give the same dollar amount as a fast tithe or to even tithe it towards the missionary fund. That would be agreeable to me.

My ex-husband gambled, it didn't matter what it was: state run lottery, private poker game, illegal gambling house, or even betting on baseball or basketball. Over a four year time frame he gambled away $60,000.00. Yep, you read right. We filed bankruptcy, and there it was all in black and white. In Oregon the state operates numerous gamblings. They got the people to vote it in by telling them that the proceeds will go to the Schools (they have yet to get enough money to do any good with it), pave the highways(again, not enough money to do much good with it), blah,blah,blah. The money goes into someones pockets and not where they claimed it was going to go.

Gambling is no good. The church no longer allows the members to hold raffles, no matter how good the cause. There is not enough space to quote from all the articles from the Ensigns on what the leaders of the Church have said about gambling and lotterys. Just go to the Gospel Library on the lds.org site and in the search put in lottery, select ensign only and you should come up with 21 hits. Read them all. Every single one of them is against lotterys. Now do the same with Gambling. You'll get 100 or more hits. Lots of them will not be on the gambling we are talking about. Put in gambling lottery and you'll get 100 hits. Read every third or fourth one. They are all the same. The Church is telling us that gambling, lottery, is bad. Don't do it. It is evil.

I have lived it. Gambling is evil. Oregon's big advertising speil is: You can't Win if You Don't Play. Yes I can win if I don't play. I win more than money. I win by always having the Spirit with me.

I would rather go through my cupboards and take half of what food I have and give it to a needy family then to take $1.00 and buy a lottery ticket. That is my 2 cents worth.

Gambling Position Lds

Stake Priesthood meeting last week was all on gambling. Stake President said more than one marriage in the stake has fallen apart as a result of gambling. We've had a half dozen or so Indian Casinos sprout up over the last 10 years so we don't have to go to Vegas anymore. He also talked about cable stations like ESPN having poker and blackjack tournaments. Many of the youth in our stake know the names of the top money leaders in gambling. Sort of like knowing the names of famous athletes like a hero thing. It's all around us and is Satanic. He said he knows most LDS families have face cards in their home and we need to burn them. It doesn't matter if we use them to play harmless family games, we are to get rid of them. He quoted no less than 6 latter day prophets who have condemmed face cards.

Now I know many will think he is going overboard. What's the harm in playing a friendly game of Rummy or Hearts? But I guess it comes down to whether you meant it when you raised your hand to sustain him.

On a side note, Bonnevile Communications, which is owned by the church, owns three radio stations here in Phoenix. They now refuse to run adds for the casinos.

Lds Position On Gambling Studies Doctrine Mormon

Harry Reid pushes bill to allow for online gambling

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing behind the scenes for lame-duck legislation that would allow poker games over the Internet but restrict initial licenses to casinos and racetrack operators that have been in businesses at least five years. Ref. Source 1