[mdmathis6]

I agree that it was too public a donation for the man to have made..but they exacerbated the publicity by refusing it publically and commenting on it publically. Christ said that the children"of this world were often wiser than the children of Light". The SA's public mission is way beyond the sin's of gambling, they are dealing more with drug addicts and alcoholics,and homeless mentally ill patients abandoned by their families. Gambling is one of the least of their issues they are having to minister to that they should be making a public spectacle of! Ironically, they could have accepted the money to fund their anti-gambling ministries, and invited the man to join!

[xlib]

The SA's public mission is way beyond the sin's of gambling, they are dealing more with drug addicts and alcoholics,and homeless mentally ill patients abandoned by their families.

Lots of people who've ruined their lives through gambling addictions end up on SA's doorstep. I doubt they would knowingly accept donations from anyone who made windfall profits from drugs or alcohol either. They're not making a public spectacle, they're just being consistent.

[KneelBeforeZod]

PRO (they shoulda took the money): But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel

CON: And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

ETC (bible "lotteries"): And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat
::And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions