Cleveland Adult Entertainment: Two Akron-area clergy groups oppose state Issue 3
Beacon Journal staff reportTwo Akron-area clergy groups voiced opposition Tuesday to state Issue 3, which would allow casinos to be built in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo. Leaders of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance and the Akron and Vicinity Baptist Ministers Conference said during a news conference at Mountain of the Lord Fellowship on Copley Road that the expansion of legalized gambling in Ohio will increase destructive behaviors like drug addiction and prostitution. They accused Issue 3 promoters of using deceptive promises to gain voters’ support of the constitutional amendment. ”Just like the people who get rich off drugs don’t use drugs, the people who get rich off of the casinos don’t gamble they own them,” said the Rev. William Bunton, president of the Baptist ministers group. ”The people who work there will make minimum wage, which will not raise them out of poverty. The reality is that few people get rich off of casinos and that communities are not made better because of them.” Bunton and the Rev. Eugene Norris, …