Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Blind Justice
by Lee

Longtime readers of this blog will know that I think the Americans With Disabilities Act is one of the worst pices of legislation signed into law in recent memory.  Here’s why.

A judge has cleared the way for a blind couple to open a day care center in Colorado, saying the state’s refusal to issue them a license violated the Americans With Disabilities Act.

However, the couple said they are not sure whether they will go ahead with their plans, because they fear they will be hounded by inspectors looking for problems.

Administrative Law Judge Matthew Norwood last week overturned a state decision denying Thomas and Christine Hutchinson a day care license.

The couple would apparently be the first blind couple to operate a day care in Colorado, one of only a few states where courts have allowed blind people to run day cares, the couple’s attorney, Scott LaBarre, said Wednesday.

“It’s yet another victory in a long string of victories for blind and disabled people, demonstrating to the public as well as our government that you can’t discriminate solely on the basis of blindness,” said LaBarre, who is also blind.

This is just such a stupid idea I can’t even begin to explain it.  Say you left your baby with them, and while it was asleep in the crib it stopped breating.  How would either of these people know?  “Sorry.  Normally the blue color would indicate that the baby had stopped breathing, but because I’m blind I didn’t see it.  Luckily my sense of touch is still perfect, so when I felt the baby had turned cold I called an ambulance.  Unfortunately the baby was dead by then.”

What’s next, blind airline pilots?

Posted by Lee on 05/11/05 at 05:26 PM in Politics, Law, & Economics  • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
Page 1 of 1 pages