This Week in Gambling – As a Christian man I am constantly shocked by the ignorance and hypocrisy carried out under the religious umbrella. So, I would like to make one thing very clear right now: Gambling is not a sin. There is no scriptural support for saying that it is, no matter what vague passage is taken out of context and twisted to fit someone moral opinion… so shut up. Gambling is not ethically right or wrong, it’s an activity. Most Christians don’t like to openly talk about sex, either. But sex, like gambling, is an activity that is…

From Guardian The shaming of Australian gamblers is relentless. Alcohol causes more deaths, and yet no one is demanding that we picket shiraz. I saw my first pantomime aged seven, in the hall of a Returned Services League (RSL) Youth Club, sometime in the 1980s. It had a dashing hero and heroine, a man in a ballgown, flying handfuls of lollies and that leap-out-of-your-seat raucousness that exhilarates children. There were hundreds of us. The supervising adults maintained respectful distance and when the curtain finally came down on the dastardly villains, everyone was given a showbag full of treats. It was…