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Virtues guru Bennett: 'Gambling days over'. (News).
From:
The Christian Century
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May 31, 2003
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While most conservative Christians in the United States see gambling as a vice, Bill Bennett doesn't think so. Or at least he didn't until many of his fellow conservatives began criticizing him for recently publicized revelations about his massive gambling habit.
Bennett is a conservative hero for his many books, speeches and columns calling for a return of the virtues to public life. He served as education secretary under President Ronald Reagan and as drug czar under t...
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