My faith doesn't have anything to say about why
people have impairments. It doesn't tell me there is some special
value to disabled people that makes up for their limitations. It
tells me that we're all equally valuable, rich or poor, healthy or
ill, mobile or not - and that society has failed to accept and
reflect that. It tells me that I, and hopefully we, should be trying
to change society to allow everyone the fullest possible access to
the things people take for granted, and for that matter everything
they don't take for granted as well. It tells me that there's a
fundamental injustice in a society made by unimpaired people for
unimpaired people, just as much as a society made by men for men, or
by white people for white people.
Written June 2017
