NOD requests SIGNews to reprint my article on the NOD website.
"Encouraging Church Accessibility for the Disabled"
is posted on the NOD website. Here's an excerpt:
The National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) works with cities and towns to encourage accessibility for people with disabilities. Fifteen years ago, Ginny Thornburgh started the Religion and Disability Program of N.O.D. as an interfaith effort urging national faith groups, local congregations and seminaries to identify and remove barriers of architecture, communications and attitudes. Thornburgh and her staff travel throughout the United States visiting churches, synagogues, and mosques to show them how they can make their houses of God accessible to the disabled. The Americans with Disabilities Act, made into law 14 years ago, should have made Thornburgh's work unnecessary. The law specifically states that public places like stores, restaurants, and hotels have an obligation to be accessible to people with all kinds of disabilities. Unfortunately, the law does not apply to religious institutions due to the separation of church and state guaranteed in the Constitution. It is for this reason that there is a need for the Religion and Disability Program.
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