Yes, it's illegal to play any card games or games with any cards or dice in South Carolina. Apparently at some point in the past, our legislators thought it was immoral to do such a thing and passed a law making it illegal to play a game of cards in your own house. Fortunately I haven't heard about them using the police to bust into people's home and make arrests because someone was playing backgammon or a card game like spades. Recently some legislators here tried to make it legal to play a game of poker in your own house. The bill failed to pass. It's still illegal here. The reason I'm posting this is to point out that I disagree with legislators trying to enforce their religious views on the rest of society. The latest case in point was the bill that did pass the house in South Carolina to restrict all strip clubs with a 6 foot rule that would be enforced through police enforcement along with a ban on lap dances. We don't need that. We don't need religious views getting put into law. I should be able to legally play a game of backgammon or cards or whatever game I want to in my house if I'm not threatening the public.
Actually I'm not even opposed to gambling even though there are a few people who do not know how to exercise control and limit their gambling to disposable income. I guess some argue that the extreme gambling losses would cost society a lot more money than it creates. Someone tried to use the same argument to pass the strip club bill arguing that dancers performing lap dances and getting close to dancers is a public health hazard. Apparently they disregard the fact that the same people are in constantly touching getting change in grocery stores, shaking hands in church, brushing up against other people in bars and nightclubs. If the attack against strip clubs is solely in the name of public safety, all public meetings need to separate the people so that contact isn't made because shaking hands in church for example spreads diseases and we all know that getting sick is a big loss to society, you miss work, etc. etc.
Don't you just love how progressive your local politicians can be?
I know religious viewpoints already determined many of the laws we already have on the books but imposing new additional laws because of one groups religious views I am opposed to that. If it's public safety, then the safety issue needs to apply to all public meetings not just strip clubs. Tell the politicians that the 6 foot rule will also apply in the state house and the police will fine them $1,000 each time they violate the law by getting too close to another representative and see how fast this stupid bill gets dropped. PS. I think the bill got set aside for further review so I'm guessing we won't hear too much about it for at least several months. If you live here, I would vote out of office all incumbents in the house of South Carolina unless you know they were against the bill.