Reverend Jesse Jackson joined hundreds of people to protest the governor's closing of a local bingo hall. But, this rally also brought out people who don't want electronic gambling in Fairfield period.
"J-E-S-U-S! J-E-S-U-S!" Lorraine Adams yelled above the crowd. She says gambling is against the Bible.
Lisa Ward, disagrees with Adams saying religion has nothing to do with electronic gambling.
"We know Jesus as we said, but we still need a job we have bills to pay and mortgages to pay, Bob Riley rich, he got his...we need ours," Ward says.
Both women gathered among hundreds at Fairfield City Hall to hear Reverend Jesse Jackson speak in support of the former electronic bingo employees.
"Save the workers, save the jobs. Save the workers, save the jobs," Jackson chanted.
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Rally attendees claim it's a civil rights issue, Reverend Jesse Jackson says that's exactly what it is.
"The right for your vote whether or not to bingo, that is a right of Alabama that's why your attorney general takes the stand on that. No civil court has overturned that right, so we stand on that civil right," Jackson says.
protesters of Reverend Jackson's cause made their voices heard.
"Now Jesse wants to stand for it, you can't contradict yourself, you either have to be on one side of the fence or the other and I'm against it," Herman Henderson says.
And former bingo employees were beyond grateful to see the notable civil rights activist take a stand.
"I think it's unbelievable to see Reverend Jesse Jackson here."
While many attendees didn't see eye to eye on the gambling front, one thing the rally did prove....the debate continues on.
Reverend Jackson says he appealed to both Governor Riley and Troy King to sit down to discuss the gambling controversy.
now I'm not working so when you're not working that prompts you go go out and do things wrong, I'm not saying I'm going to do things wrong but people can get desperate," Ramona Tolber says. 
