SC Lottery

CaramelApple1971 · #1 10-11-2000, 09:16 AM

To all greekchat.com members in SC:

How are you going to vote?

I am for the lottery, but I feel because I am a christian I should be against the lottery because it is gambling. So that is how I will vote but I do like Gov. Hodges' plan for education?

Tiff

matthewg · #2 10-12-2000, 07:03 AM

Sorry to ask,
but what does christianity have to do with gambling???

[This message has been edited by matthewg (edited October 12, 2000).]

Babiegyrl · #3 10-12-2000, 05:52 PM

I am did an absentee ballot, and yes I did vote for the lottery, what better way to fund an eduacation. I am a Christian also, but I believe that letting something control your life to the point where you don't know how to stop, addiction is a sin. Example drinking alcohol if you're of legal age, but being an alcoholic is a sin. So therefore to me gambling is not a sin. Everyone in my family has bought at least one lottery ticket in their lifetime. Being that I grew up in South Carolina, and know what the education system is like, the money from a lottery would greatly benefit education.

Babiegyrl · #4 10-12-2000, 05:52 PM

I am did an absentee ballot, and yes I did vote for the lottery, what better way to fund an eduacation. I am a Christian also, but I believe that letting something control your life to the point where you don't know how to stop, addiction is a sin. Example drinking alcohol if you're of legal age, but being an alcoholic is a sin. So therefore to me gambling is not a sin. Everyone in my family has bought at least one lottery ticket in their lifetime. Being that I grew up in South Carolina, and know what the education system is like, the money from a lottery would greatly benefit education.

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Billy Optimist · #5 04-03-2001, 02:25 AM

I'm all for the lottery. Especially when it goes to education. AFter all, it is a tax on people who need help with math.

#6 04-03-2001, 02:37 AM

I'm also all for a lottery. Coming from a state where our state government says they "can't" afford to give our public educators pay raises, I think a lottery could help fund education and pay raises for qualified employees.

Though I'm somewhat against bring casinos and gaming into my state (as it could bring more crime and violence), I think a controlled form could be a good idea. My best friend goes to UNLV, where the school is funded by the the profits of Las Vegas, and when I visited the campus, I was awed at the wonderful facilities the students had!

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