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Editorial by ANDREW BOLT [Herald Sun] hits the nail on the head...

OUR equal opportunity laws are so harmful now that junking them would do more good than ill. And would save money for soup.

I say soup, because two homeless men - Chris Ponsonby, 52, and Tim Flack, 32 - are suing Cabrini Hospital's governing board for discrimination, after volunteers on a food bus it funds refused to give them free soup. The food bus policy is to feed young beggars first.
How wrong it is for our Equal Opportunity Commission to be able to interfere, when giving charity is an expression of our personal morality. It's an expression of ourselves - but only if we're free to choose whom to help and how.

Once bureaucrats or beggars start making those decisions for us, we're no longer being charitable. We're just following orders. We become lesser people, and who'd donate soup for that?

So if an equal opportunity official thinks Ponsonby and Flack deserve soup, let her give them that soup herself. And if these men actually need soup, then let them sue the government for failing in its duty to save citizens from starvation.


Over the government's charity, these men do have rights. But over our private charity, and our individual conscience, they have none.

bolta@heraldsun.com.au

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