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Former Church Secretary Sentenced for 18 Months in Prison for Stealing $89K from Her Church

Former Church Secretary Sentenced for 18 Months in Prison for Stealing $89K from Her Church

A former church secretary from Alabama was recently sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison after stealing over $89,000 from her church, using the funds for personal expenses, and gambling it away at casinos.

According to a press release from the Department of Justice, 59-year-old Carmen Ramer Davis from Opp was sentenced to 18 months in prison last Thursday. From 2006 through 2019, she served as secretary for Brooklyn Congregational Methodist Church in Coffee County, where she had access to the church’s bank accounts and had the authority to pay for the church’s bills and expenses.

Laws Shape How We Think about the World Around Us

Laws Shape How We Think about the World Around Us

If our intuitions do influence our moral decisions, even overriding our best intentions and our rationality, we’d do well to pay attention to what is shaping themWhat’s legally available (or not) shapes them, and not just because people don’t want to get in trouble. Laws create conditions, such as whether we have access to certain products and advertising. Laws make some financial incentives possible, but not others. They can also normalize or stigmatize behaviors. In other words, laws play a role in fostering the habits of a people, and people tend to be formed by their habits. Laws should not enable and should never incentivize bad habits. Good habits, on the other hand, also form our moral intuitions. 

Tony Dungy Blasts 'Hypocritical' NFL for Promoting Gambling: 'I've Seen the Lives it Ruins'

Tony Dungy Blasts 'Hypocritical' NFL for Promoting Gambling: 'I've Seen the Lives it Ruins'

Television commentator and Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy is criticizing the NFL’s partnerships with gaming companies, saying the league is hypocritical for “promoting gambling” while telling its players not to participate.

Sports Gambling Is a Bad Bet

Sports Gambling Is a Bad Bet

Today is what some call “the professional sports equinox,” the one night of the year where the NBA, NHL, MLB, and the NFL all have games. For sports fans, it’s like Christmas, Easter, Labor Day, and the Fourth of July all rolled into one. And, because of the new culture-wide push for sports gambling, Friday morning may bring quite the hangover.

Betting on March Madness: The Problem with Young Men

Betting on March Madness: The Problem with Young Men

The legalization and growth of online gambling has coincided with the legalization of recreational marijuana. This is no coincidence. After all, laws are mostly downstream from the larger culture, and these laws do far more to expand personal license. Rather, they reflect and reinforce an unmistakable message, especially to young men, to aim low, to think short-term thoughts about life and the world, to pursue immediate gratification, and to not aspire to too much.

Church Returns $25,000 Check to Casino: ‘We Can’t Keep This’

Church Returns $25,000 Check to Casino: ‘We Can’t Keep This’
An Alabama Baptist church that suffered building damage during a tornado is returning a $25,000 donation from a casino, citing a conflict of interest.

Why Gambling Is So Popular and So Addictive

Why Gambling Is So Popular and So Addictive
This week, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law that prohibits sports gambling. The landmark decision gives states the right to legalize betting on sports.

Why Legalized Marijuana and Gambling Only Benefits the Government

Why Legalized Marijuana and Gambling Only Benefits the Government
What do legalized gambling and legalized pot have in common? They fill government coffers and fuel social pathologies -- all in the name of personal freedom. I’ll explain, next on BreakPoint.
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