Ask Your State Senator to Vote No on Mobile Sports Gambling

On Monday, all members of the Minnesota Senate will vote on a motion to send a mobile sports gambling legalization bill to a more favorable committee. Contact your legislator now (it will take only a minute!) expressing your desire for them to vote "no" on Monday.

In the 2025 session, we testified against a bill to legalize mobile sports gambling in a hearing in which the bill did not advance on a split vote. Now a new legalization bill has been introduced, and proponents are attempting to move the bill to a favorable committee. Minnesota Family Council sees this as an attempt to cheat the system established by the process of the Minnesota Senate.

Fewer than 5% of mobile sports gamblers make any money on mobile sports gambling. A long term study found that hardly any mobile sports gamblers make any money, although the platforms advertise that players can expect a windfall.

Likelihood of household bankruptcy increases dramatically after a few years of legalization.

The bills to legalize online sports betting in Minnesota do not account for the social costs of family fragmentation, substance abuse, addiction, increased poverty, and likely increases in domestic violence. Instead, the tax revenue generated is mostly redistributed to gambling stakeholders and not for Minnesotans generally. The state could actually lose money by legalizing online sports betting, and church communities and families pay the societal costs.

Read more about the impact of mobile sports gambling:

• WSJ: I’m a College Student. Gen Z Sports Betting Is Wrecking My Friends’ Lives.
• The Atlantic: My year as a degenerate gambler

Thank you for using your voice!