[templar]

What I do see is a hypocritical organization making a public spectacle of this man,humiliating him instead of extending him Christ's grace

Could you explain why this is hypocritical? The way I see, it would have been hypocritical for them to accept gambling proceeds since they oppose gambling. Also, how have they not extended Christ's Grace? All Salvation Army branches that I know of make an effort to reach out to the gamblers, drunkards, etc. to help them heal and restore thier lives.

[mdmathis6]

They stuck it to the man publically...branded him a sinning gambler without recognizing that some have differing opinions as to what gambling is. Now are you going to accuse the 2 churches he donated to guilty of of giving in to a "sinning gambler" by accepting his money? I'm sorry but the local SA comes across as smug in its own righteousness here. I'll be willing to bet that the Local SA chapters in some of the larger inner cities would accept the money no questions asked...you see it's crack addicts, aids infected prostitutes and mentally ill homeless they have more of a problem with there...not gamblers!

The donor made a public spectacle of himself...how much of it was the media doing its thing I don't know!