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Down on double deuces. (Gambling).


The Christian Coalition Christian Coalition, organization founded to advance the agenda of political and social conservatives, mostly comprised of evangelical Protestant Republicans, and to preserve what it deems traditional American values.  of Georgia, along with Peace State Methodist and Baptist churches, are in a pitched battle pitched battle
n.
1. An intense battle fought in close contact by troops arranged in a predetermined formation.

2. A fiercely waged battle or struggle between opposing forces.
 to close down the state's video poker Video poker is a casino game based on five-card draw poker. It is played on a computerized console which is a similar size to a slot machine.

History
Video poker first became commercially viable when it became economical to combine a television-like monitor with a
 machines. Licensing is cheap and revenues from the cash-operated machines are exempt from sales taxes, so owners get rich quick while players lose big time. More than 1,500 churches have placed inserts in bulletins urging members to flood Georgia's governor with phone calls asking him to ban video gambling.

Psychologist Robert Hunter Robert Hunter may refer to:

In politics:
  • General Robert Hunter (1664/1666–1734), Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Colony, Governor of New York, New Jersey, Jamaica
  • Robert C. Hunter (born 1944), U.S. judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals
  • Robert E.
, who runs the nonprofit Problem Gambling Center in Las Vegas, called video poker the "crack cocaine" of gambling. Nearly 52,000 video gambling machines are licensed in Georgia. The churches argue that gambling is deadly to the best interests of moral, social, economic, and spiritual life and destructive of good government.
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Title Annotation:religious groups call for ban on video poker machines
Author:Hochstedler, Jodi
Publication:Sojourners
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U5GA
Date:Jul 1, 2002
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