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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2193066" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>Yes. There are parts of that law that are good, but forcing people to do business by law isn't one of them. If people actually care about that, they will use reason or put economic pressure on the business owners to change their ways--witness the "bus strike" in Montgomery or the actions of some of our members in getting business owners to take down the "gun buster" signs. </p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong--I don't think that business owners who discriminate against minorities or don't take accessibility into account during remodels are right to do so, but I do support their right to be wrong.</p><p></p><p>We only have finite resources to do things, so every dollar spent on accommodation is a dollar that can't be spent on something else. F'rinstance, we have an elevator in one room that goes up about two and a half feet. It was done for ADA compliance, but has been used once in the 10+ years the room has been open--when I tested it immediately after construction. I don't know how much money we spent on that, but there were other places we really could have spent it that would have had much more effect on the room's purpose.</p><p></p><p>Edit: I guess I should finish that thought--I think we were right to install the lift, but it should have been <em>our</em> decision, not the decision of some bureaucrat it DC, because only we know if that expenditure is better than what else we'd have done with that money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2193066, member: 26737"] Yes. There are parts of that law that are good, but forcing people to do business by law isn't one of them. If people actually care about that, they will use reason or put economic pressure on the business owners to change their ways--witness the "bus strike" in Montgomery or the actions of some of our members in getting business owners to take down the "gun buster" signs. Don't get me wrong--I don't think that business owners who discriminate against minorities or don't take accessibility into account during remodels are right to do so, but I do support their right to be wrong. We only have finite resources to do things, so every dollar spent on accommodation is a dollar that can't be spent on something else. F'rinstance, we have an elevator in one room that goes up about two and a half feet. It was done for ADA compliance, but has been used once in the 10+ years the room has been open--when I tested it immediately after construction. I don't know how much money we spent on that, but there were other places we really could have spent it that would have had much more effect on the room's purpose. Edit: I guess I should finish that thought--I think we were right to install the lift, but it should have been [I]our[/I] decision, not the decision of some bureaucrat it DC, because only we know if that expenditure is better than what else we'd have done with that money. [/QUOTE]
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