WHY NOT LEGALIZE OTHER SINS?

I suspected my letter condemning the lottery would arouse the ire of someone.

He says I completely ignore the real problem which is "choices." Not true, my
thrust was to condemn sinful choices, of which the lotto is one. Adam and Eve
were commanded not to eat, and Satan cleverly suggested that it was really OK.
God said it is sin to gamble, and our society and government cleverly says it
is really OK, since it is for a good cause.

I did not mention the "good" that the lotto does since it was my purpose to
point out the inherent evil. Why not legalize prostitution and direct a portion
of the profits into scholarships? After all, the problem is not the sin of
fornication, it is just a matter of choices. Legalize marijuana like the fellow
in Albany keeps pushing. Let's tax it and direct a portion into scholarships.
State run liquor stores... oh, someone already thought of that lunacy.

Might as well legalize "date rape drugs," heroin and cocaine. All good clean
fun and after all look how many children we can educate!

What kind of choices can a "crack baby" make? Pretty difficult to be anything
but a crack adult. Let the government raise successive generations of lotto
babies, and they are not only addicted to gambling, but other sinful and
illegal "choices." We will end up with a society of the most educated potheads,
alcoholics, and chronic gamblers the world has ever known.

As far as the good the lotto does being worth the risk, if one child makes a
wrong choice because we failed to properly, Biblically, morally, train them --
the lotto and society has failed. It does not matter if 50 million get a free
ride to college, it is not worth the soul of one child.

Ewell Pritchett

Buena Vista, Ga.