i live in oklahoma, and presently we are having a terrible time with the state budget. several people have proposed a state wide lottery to help out in paticular the education budget, but there is a big opposition to this from the religious right. can anyone explain what the basis of this is? i see that they say that the lottery could hurt people with gambling problems, but we already have indian casinos. i think if people buy enough $1 lottery tickets to put them in financial straits, then i think they would find some other way to screw up their life without the lottery.