Gary Palmer: Our Goal: To Uphold the law

  Every year, a massive gambling syndicate engages the Alabama State Legislature in a well-funded effort to give legal legitimacy to a despicable trade. And for the past couple of years, flagrant support has come from an unlikely source… the Christian Coalition of Alabama.

  Randy Brinson, the president of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, has attempted to make a “Christian” case for passage of gambling bills. In 2007, Brinson supported a bill to legalize electronic bingo gambling at existing dog tracks in Alabama. Apparently, back then he rationalized that the best solution was to legalize the illegal activity at those four places so that it would be easier for the state to shut down illegal electronic bingo gambling in other places.