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He needs to be revealed and criticized publicly because he made a public donation. Of course, he did this publicly because he wanted the approbation for doing such a thing and it would not have been possible either to deduct it nor to be applauded for doing it if he had done it quietly. Gambling is wrong because even tho' there might be a winner who will give a portion of what he has won to a worthy cause, there are millions of losers and that has to be wrong!!! The Salvation Army deserves much credit in sticking to its biblical belief that gambling is wrong because it is!!! Praise be for organizations like The Salvation Army and praise be to the Lord from whom all blessings flow.

We are not to take our disputes(regarding the donor issue) with each other before the public forums, isn't that what the Bible teaches. There are many more millions upon millions who gamble and have no problem with it. Show me in the bible where it says Thou shalt not gamble! It can become quite treacherous to create a whole body of religious thought out of ideas inferred from but not wholly grounded in scripture(The jewish Talmud being much larger than the Jewish Torah, for example).

That being said, one needs to understand ones weaknesses and areas in our lives that Satan can use to destroy us. The Bible calls the love of money, the root of all evil. I know one can draw personal sensible conclusions regarding gambling as well as the unbalanced pre-occupation with gaining and keeping wealth from the personal application of that verse. One could argue that those FREEPERS who don't want high taxes are immorally pre-occupied with wealth and must be liberated from their demons...at least Liberals seem to think so...

A Christian man, bought a Lottery ticket and won a zillion bucks. He wanted to give some of it to where it would do some good...he made some-what of an ass of him-self publically by doing what he did...then again so did Zachaeus when he became Christ's and repayed everything he had gained illegally 4 times(as I think Jewish Law required). Must have been quite a public spectacle, the publican, repenting publically!