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Brief: Church opposes gaming classes in colleges

Monday, Oct. 19, 1998 | 12:13 p.m.

Such legislation has failed twice before. It will be opposed again on moral grounds.

"There needs to be a clear wall of separation between the casinos and the educational institutions of Mississippi," said Paul Jones, executive director of the Mississippi Baptist Convention's Christian Action Commission. "Anything the casinos touch tends to be tainted by them."

The convention represents 2,058 churches with 696,000 members.

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