Okay, some laws are archaic and need some serious revamping!!

[chiefsfan58]

As many of you know, I'm planning on running a casino-style event and a Texas Hold 'em tournament one night at JAMPCon 2010.  Well, we may be running into some really archaic gaming and gambling laws that Tennessee has (Georgia's pretty much the same way.):

Tennessee explicitly outlaws ANY gambling of any form -- social, commercial, or charitable.

Comments

[inuyasha_boy]

Well unless someone Rats you out, I'd go for it. People do it all the time.

It's the fucking Bible Belt

[phantomreader42]

Sensible laws are not going to happen any time soon. Hell, I'm reminded of the insane overreaction to a bingo tournament in Needful Things (it ended in mass murder, though there were other factors, and this was fiction set in Maine).

Yes, there are plenty of laws that need to be changed, but it won't happen until something knocks the Dark Ages lobby down a few pegs. The Governor here still supports a ban on Sunday alcohol sales, and spins madly to hide the obvious religious motivations for it. And then there's Alabama, where we couldn't remove segregation-era language from our Constitution because the Chief Televangelist of the Supreme Court told everyone it was part of a vast conspiracy to raise taxes.

SOMEONE needs to publicly say "fuck you" to this idiocy, but you might want to make prior arrangements with the ACLU in case you get fucked over by cops trying to enforce a bad law in a meaningless context. And IANAL, of course.