Salvation Army should be more open to donations
To the editor:
In response to The Daily Breeze article on 11-14-08 entitled “Salvation Army’s Christmas Kettle campaign begins.” I truly felt that warm, fuzzy feeling when I read your article. Over the years it has always pleased me to drop money into the kettles and feel that I was making someone’s Christmas brighter.
There was an article carried in another paper when Mr. David L. Rush of Naples offered the Salvation Army $100,000 for Christmas in 2002. Major Cleo Damon, head of the Salvation Army office in Naples, refused the donation because Mr. Rush had won the Florida lottery. Major Damon said this was gambling money. The lottery has given billions to help our schools. Isn’t the stock market a legalized form of gambling? Isn’t the lottery legal or moral? And, if it’s not moral, why do we accept billions to our schools? Shouldn’t the Salvation Army consider how many people they can help before it declines such an offer? Occasionally my husband will win a small amount of money on the golf course, does this mean that Salvation Army doesn’t want my donation?
Mary West
Cape Coral