My experience with people who have more money than they will ever be able to spend in many lifetimes, have a much difficult time handling the influence of their wealth. The power can corrupt a person’s motives. The guilt of being wealthy makes them appear they must do something so we should too. It’s so wrong to me when anyone preaches it’s a sin that you cannot decide on your own, to help a person or not. Giving is a natural expression of love and brotherhood. Just leave that alone but liberals cannot allow personal freedom for an individual or even a business.
There is nothing wrong with being generous, but generosity should be exercised in a wise way, to encourage a change in conduct and circumstance that is to the good rather than the ill. In some cases there is debatable moral calculus involved and there’s room for disagreement in judgment calls, but here the right thing would be rather clear — help the kids (and parents) do better, RIGHT AT HOME.
This is where the Mormon faith can become an issue. Ministry in the name of some generic Christianity can be agreed to among many different denominations, but according to most Mormons, to do Mormonism you have to do it in a Mormon church... and there just aren’t very many, if any, in Latin America. Maybe Beck sincerely thinks that, due to the Mormonism factor, he is doing the right thing.