Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little. — Luke 7:47

It is a dramatic scene out of America's mythical past — a Western scene of cowboys, saloons, and gunslingers; a scene of wide-open spaces conquered by fierce individualists, liquor, and true grit. It is a scene, however, a little different from the cowboy heroes of my childhood, the scenes of the good guy, white hat heroes like Roy Rogers and Gene Au-try, not even to mention the good guy, white hat hero horses like Trigger or Silver of the Lone Ranger's "Hi, Ho Silver, away!"

Yes, it is a scene unlike my childhood memories of cowboys and Indians and the Lone Ranger and his faithful Indian sidekick Tonto. The scene is more in keeping with today's Lone…