Show 7 fit-- Payo 3? Mm!i jijurii)! Sunday October 13 1996 UiiiM (iijitu The battle for rights: Has America gone too far? By Lance Cay and Torn Kisken Scripps Howard News Service A and 2(1 a SI inINNI elcvatm parking handicapped costs the im ncr says he spaces cannot afford los Angeles public schools spend S44 million on lawyers and and papciwmk lighting a lave suit ovei the lights losing of childicn with learning disabili ties A Boston I 'Diversity piolessm appeals his 1'ii iug lor kindling a colleague and taking indecent liberties with lemale students l) blaming his behavior on a psychological disorder Welcome to the limit lines of America's pitched hat t Je over individual lights Skirmishes ovei the costs and conscipjcnces of wiping out discrimination are being fought in die nation's walks more accessible lo disabled people fiiinmon sense has lce'oinc a casualty in workplaces trails-loimc- d by sensitivity training and laws against sexual haiassment gender bias and othci inequities Since landmark civil rights Aie America s lights laws working? Oi are liny driving even deeper divisions into ety ? In towns and cities Imm coast to coast individuals and gioups alikcYomplam that I licit by an lights are being violated overheating federal government h) the while majority hv racial minorities hv narrow advocacy groups hv laws and regulations gone awiv Les Hut'tjVfl IfcvH a lu fi-- - 'i“ LH-'- Hi' tl i public-polic- halka-nie- own cause than the common j s1 cut Mirinnl llirnugli IcgisJa pi in n mi i null decree is unable in i llci lively tackle discnmina-lins Mmul say elfoils such as atl'iimativc ad inn and the Aimiuaiis Willi Uisabilitics Act "I'cn violate cniiiinun sense and smiH limes hann the cornnion )innd But t in v one Ameiiean in two-lhiid- good The clash ol tights has Americans debating whether: Afliiinative action should lc scrapXd ( alifmnians on Nov 5 will vote on a ballot initiative gieally limiting it in state and local government Public school students in tegular classrooms aie being liccausc ol ledeial laws that help disabled children some' of whom are disiuplive (jovernnient and businesses should lx requited to scnd liuu dieds of millions of dollais a year making buildings buses and side shoit-changc- d lights advances Building and safely inspectois dancers Some front-linparticipants in the rights debate say such con and even Bids aie inevitable a in complex incieas healthy ingly diverse nalion “The clash of rights is pail of evolution -- - it's vxiety trying to define itself" said allot nev I ynda McMaken e who Jomingiic i force a los Angeles area strip club to close an act in which a dancer perfuims in a showei because the shower can't accorn wheelchair bound rnodate I Season 1996-9- 7 '7r tics Act" said Ucnvu lawyer America's nhscssjoiA with I any disputes Mark Your Calendar For Jeanne llliott paialycd HI years I ago in a courtioom shooting go lo the supciinarkcf just like any liody else and my piiccs haven't gone up" Hut Murray Wcidcnhaum head ol the Council ill lconomic Advisers in the Kcagan adminis nation argues that the cost is hid den “One of the attractions of gov eminent regulation is that you can claim to do so much good and not have to finance it Ixcausc business is picking up the costs" 'I lie new rights have opened doois to a fuller life lot Amcii cans once denied lull paiticipa lion in society But some who have not benefited from icccnt groups more concerned with their c is much kss divid-- i in its belief that ( Iiaiiiiseii they fill the courts airwaves ami halls of public debate all in the name of rights: In accused and convicted criminals: and in some institutions and communities homosexuals How much do the new lights cost? Billions? “I don't know of anybody who lias gone out of business liccausc of the Ameiicans With IJjsahili the nation into interest Americans divided over rights problem heads a llispamr advocacy group ( alii mi Ovnanl said (Niliticians teed the piiblii-'need to assess ment contracts and collcgc adinissions: older workeis soci- hope" Colorful even menially disabled people: rninoii lies and women seeking govern- and l would have gotten a particular job" he said “So yes we'ie under attack and yes theie s tea son to feel we're being victim icd But iheic's also leason (oi said “But without affirmative admii I would have liccn i sergeant live years ago" Smiie members of minority gnilips fell eqijilly licsicgcd ple” ali given if I preferential lieatmenl gains by minorities in the 9filh the nation has extended addition al legal protections and social safety nets to more than HNJ mil lion Americans Among the Ixne Hilaries are physically and city halls rights some scholais and analysts say has individu- j ilis c'lin ali'iii fiul success aie being v niiailcd in a misguided elknt to light past w longs John Blaikwcll a youth coun-selo- i at a ( alili'iuia prison says he lost a fit im it ion to sergeant liccausc lie s while "We like lo think while people ate the iippicssuis the evil peo- facial and age discrimination streets classioonis wmkplaces Suipps Howard News Puerto wring iiarnmf'is in an effort to coast from coast to als and groups alike complain their rights are being violated — by an overbearing federal government by the white majority by racial minorities by narrow advocacy groups by laws and regulations gone awry small Indiana ski lodge is told to install and cities In towns blame “Some while males leel nos or other people weien w1 'fiv ! r('uUuH tuhir ( )i N:00 pm 2J Trfu ! 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