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Baptists Oppose Slots in Miami

Just as voters are placing their early voting ballots at their polls and absentee voters are putting them in the mail, the Miami Baptist Association’s Administrative Committee voted unanimously on January 15th to vote against the slots that they are all deciding upon. With Broward County set to rake in millions upon millions of dollars from their own slots expansion, many in Miami-Dade county feel that they deserve a piece of that pie.

However, the proponents of the slots issue are about to have a battle on their hands. The Baptists are urging Southern Baptists to vote against the slots expansion in their county, and want them to spread the word. They say that slots are not “appropriate for [their] communities” and want people to realize the ramifications of voting them in.

The resolution, drafted by Gary Johnson, that the Baptists have passed, has been mailed to all of their churches – and thus to more than 50,000 of their congregations. As the Miami Baptists are the largest evangelical group in the county, they know that they stand a real chance of beating the slots once they have all cast their votes.

The resolution is called “Vote No to the Expansion of Gambling in Miami-Dade County” and urges their flock to think “biblically” when voting in regards to the slots. They say that it is harmful to their community and will create addicts in its wake. They also stress that the amount of other harms that will befall their community in relation to bringing in slots are more than enough reason to vote against the slots.

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