Bishops' morality
Sir: I am a Conservative voter, indeed a Conservative Party member. After the Budget, I realised I should be better off and the charities I support worse off. I therefore wrote to the Charities Aid Foundation, with which I have a covenant, and found, as I hoped, that it would be very easy to substitute an increased cove- nant for the existing one. The election was declared and I held my hand, since if Labour won I certainly should not be able to do more. Now I know I can.
I should be glad if any of the pontificat- ing prelates could explain why it should be more moral of me to give by compulsion to governments, which we all know spend far too high a percentage on administration, rather than to give freely to charities that I have taken pains to ascertain do not.
I know you do not normally publish letters without name and address. I should be grateful if you could do so this time, because one does not want to advertise one's charitable giving. But I am genuinely puzzled and should like to be given a rational answer to my question, if there is one.
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