[Qwinn]

Just out of curiosity... how is Bennett even involved or remotely related?

#1) Nothing he did was illegal.
#2) Bennett speaks from the position of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has no ban on gambling, as long as he's not gambling to the point where it harms those dependent upon him, which he never did. Yeah, there may be Protestant sects who speak out against gambling... but that doesn't mean he's subject to their rules. He never condemned gambling. Far as I'm concerned, there was absolutely nothing even -remotely- hypocritical in any "moral high ground" Bennett staked out.

And quite frankly, the whole concept that speaking about morality requires you to be a paragon of virtue is ridiculous. I wish we could go back to the time when every prostitute, drug user and child molester would acknowledge what the moral high ground -is- rather than claim that what they do is okay.

"Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue." Well, now that hypocrisy has become the greatest of all sins, virtue gets no tribute at all. Give me back good old hypocrisy any day.

Qwinn

[WackyKat]

He never condemned gambling. Far as I'm concerned, there was absolutely nothing even -remotely- hypocritical in any "moral high ground" Bennett staked out.

That's because Bennett only attacked other people's vices.

Bennett never condemned gambling because it was his preferred vice. This sophistry in the service of hero worship is really tiresome.