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Opponents of state-sanctioned casinos in Kansas found an unlikely ally Sunday in a former mob figure, who warned a packed church in Overland Park of the evils of gambling.

“Seven out of 10 Americans gamble on something on a daily basis,” Michael Franzese told hundreds of congregants at First Family Church, where he spoke about his life as a member of the Colombo crime family before finding religion. “It's now become our national pastime.”

At two services Sunday, the mobster-turned-evangelizer described gambling as one of the nation's fastest growing addictions. Franzese said statistics showed that a few years after a casino comes to a community, “crime rates start to rise, the incidence of pathological gamblers starts to rise, problem gamblers start to arise.”

Franzese, a mob captain, quit the Mafia after he married a devout Christian, who persuaded him to renounce his criminal ways.

In 1986, Franzese was convicted of racketeering, conspiracy and tax-fraud charges and spent seven years in prison. Since then, Franzese has been a fixture on the church and athletic lecture circuits.
 

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Franzese said statistics showed that a few years after a casino comes to a community, “crime rates start to rise, the incidence of pathological gamblers starts to rise, problem gamblers start to arise.”

PERSONALLY, I WILL COUNTER THESE STATEMENTS TILL THE DAY I DIE!!

CASINOS PUT THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO WORK..........AND BRINGS JOY AND RECREATION TO THE 70% OF AMERICANS WHO CHOOSE TO ENJOY IT!!!
 

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If you were to bomb a casino, and a walmart, you'd increase the genetic pool by about the same.
 

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I can see both sides. I'm a big gambler and don't think there is anything wrong with it. I don't think the Bible speaks directly about it either, so I refuse to accept it when some Christians tell me all gambling is wrong. At the same time, it's probably not the best thing for people trying to stay on the straight and narrow, so I can see their concerns about the tempation being there.
 

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Although I enjoy going to the Casino I would have to say that if you don't have an ownership stake and aren't sharing in the profits then yes you would be better off if you didn't have access to a casino. However being that we are a free country how can you not have one in one area and permit it in another. It should be our right to do whatever we want as long as it doesnt hurt anyone else. I just don't think that opening one on the border of a state that doesn't have any casino gambling really throws the neighboring state for a loop as far as lost revenues go.
 

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I would like to believe we are all of the same flesh and blood, and therefore all equal.

At least that is the way I approach any human being I meet on this planet.
 

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That was a classy thing to say Fish. I posted in the Politics and world events forum, something I read in Fortune concerning global warming and it's downright scary stuff. It makes you not want to have kids. If you have children you try to treat others the way you would want people to treat your children. We often fail to oremember that the people we deal with every day are in fact someones baby. After someone dies people are filled with regrets, so if we treated everyone as if it was the last time we were going to see them the world would be like paradise. If you have lost a frind before it was there time to go you know what I mean.
 

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EXACTLY!!

I try to approach everybody I meet that way, friend or foe.

LIFE IS TO SHORT NOT TO!
 

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