This sounds to me to be a bit like all the other Pre-Election bullshit. This is not as bad as most (gay marriage, flag burning) but they are setting up two sides. One is a Free Society, Free Market camp, the other is the Gambling is bad camp, and I guess a third side could be the Lost Tax Revenue camp.
This is really what it's all about. Everytime elections roll around there is a staple of moral legislation that comes about that is easy for the masses to understand and easy for politicians to campaign on. Ridiculous really but it wouldn't be politics if they weren't trying to run society.
