B. U. G. S.

You remember that I said that I was the one who had the gun at my congressman boss’s gambling sessions?

No, this is not fiction, this is real.

His brother had recently been strangled to death by the mob for gambling debts.

I should have told him this was bad. But I didn’t. Partly because I needed the job.

But several times I put my job on the line for principles. One I mentioned here was in vitro. If he wanted a staffer to take the lead on that, I told him, he had to look elsewhere.

John was relieved. I made up his mind: he wouldn’t oppose in vitro. There are thirty thousand or so people alive today who are from in vitro.

The “pro-life movement” regrets that. They are pro-life, so they regret those lives exist. I preached to my boss on that.

So why didn’t I preach to him on gambling?

On his choice to gamble I was not his God. His PERSONAL life was personal.

If you want to you can find an excuse to govern anybody’s personal life. I could have said he was giving money to organized crime, which was true.

Unfortunately I am also aware that if you put money into ANY church collection plate, you are also doing something WORSE that paying off the Mafia.

I saw what the guerrillas did who were supported by the World Council of Churches. I can’t even describe here what the “freedom fighters” did.

And are doing.

But your collection plate money paid for it.

I have seen the results of the “Christian” program to get people in the North Carolina mountains to adopt third worlders. Many a fundamentalist will say he is no part of it, but he still calls those who do it his “brothers.”

If you pay money for gambling or illegal drugs you give money to organized crime. If you put money in the collection plate of any church, you are paying for what “the brothers” do.