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From: 34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET (Bill Gorman)
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Subject: Re: A Couple of Stories...
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Date: 17 Sep 90 02:47:21 GMT
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Jeff.Salzberg@f729.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Salzberg) writes:
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> The safety of 1500 audience members (which, of course, includes those
> in wheelchairs) is more important than anything else.  If reasonable
> efforts to insure that safety leave some patrons feeling that they are
> being discriminated against, that is regrettable.

To say nothing of, in all likelihood, illegal. A situation has been
created here whereby the disABLED patrons are categorized as being,
BY DEFINITION, a hazard to other patrons. That is intorerable. It
was probably not the *intent* of the actions mentioned (re: fire codes, etc.)
but nevertheless that is the *effect*.

Yes, I will concede that you are caught in the middle between State
and Federal Civil Rights legislation, fire codes, etc., but is that
sufficient mitigation to justify the situation? Probably not, if
the matter were ever to be adjudicated.

"That was, I say, that was a commentary, not a flame; flame, that is."

W. K. "Bill" Gorman