This story comes from Florence, Alabama. How the Lottery was defeated in a liberal area.

State Law Summary

How can you defeat the lottery in your state? By doing the same kinds of things that these churches did! Preach against the lottery, write letters to the editor against the lottery, sponsor advertisements against the lottery, put up yard signs against the lottery. Explore the resources on this site, or contact us, and we'll help you get started.

Anti Gambling Laws bring you these weekly Bible verses:

Hebrews 12:12-24

Renew Your Spiritual Vitality   
12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; 16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

The Glorious Company   
18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. 20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.)
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

The Prohibition Party of America

The Prohibition Party is a political party in the United States best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages. It was an integral part of the temperance movement and, while never one of the leading parties in the United States, it was an important force in American politics in the late 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. It has declined dramatically since the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, and is now a fraction of its previous size, having earned only 643 votes for president in the 2008 election. It advocates a variety of socially conservative causes, including "stronger and more vigorous enforcement of laws against the sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, against gambling, illegal drugs, pornography, and commercialized vice." It is the oldest third party in the US. Read more about prohibition in America, the the era of prohibition of alcohol. Prohibition in America and Prohibition of Alcohol
Prohibition Era

The Bible and Gambling

Strong's Bible Concordance