Now that the Supreme Court has found that our Constitution provides an allowance for golf carts in the PGA, can the end of competitive sports be on the horizon? How broad will the right to special treatment for disabled athletes expand? When exactly did government become the arbiter of every single aspects of everyone's life? And…does this mean I get to go to the Olympics? My specialty? The marathon. Now I can't actually run that far because I am old, out of shape, have a damaged knee from weight lifting 30 years ago and get tired after a couple of flights of stairs. But I have some Nike's. I think that I should get to be on the Olympic team because other than these small problems, I can go the distance. I will need frequent rest stops meals, and I think it is only fair that the other contestants stop and rest when I do.

Or maybe I'll forego the Olympics and go directly to professional sports. I don't see as well as I used to…so I should get more strikes baseball. My knee prevents me from jumping, so I'll need a ladder in basketball. I am not very mobile in the pocket, so the defensive linemen will have to count to ten before crossing the line of scrimmage. Tennis? I'll need a guy standing behind me to hit the ball when I miss. Hockey? Well I can't skate…so I guess I'll need one of those walker looking things I see the little kids using at the Iceoplex. After all, in the interest of fairness, I should be given the same opportunity as those born as gifted athletes…shouldn't I?

What is scary about all this, is that there are people in this country who would actually agree that these are good ideas. There are people who would handicap the athletic ability of others to bring them down to a common level. People who see sports and competition as a slap in the face of those less fortunate. They would opt for a forced equality of outcome, even if it meant reducing the quality of life for the majority. These are people who will tell you that there is no such thing as disability and to prove it, would gladly see you wear weights to remove your competitive edge.

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote a short story about a society where equality was the law. Athletic people were weighed down and crippled, intelligent people had an implanted buzzer that would go off in their heads if their cognition levels rose above an approved level. The story was about a couple who threw off their shackles and danced on television. They were graceful and beautiful, but the police came in and killed them. The buzzers in the heads of the viewers went off and they forgot what they had seen. The sacrifice had been personal.

The American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) started out with the paving stones of good intentions. Who could argue with granting access to government buildings for taxpaying citizens who were confined to wheelchairs. But the government did what governments always do. They overstepped their authority. They imposed the liberal ideals of compassion on the private sector. They made access a right. And now the Supreme Court has made participation in professional sports a Constitutional right regardless of the ability of the participant. Any law, not founded in reason has the potential to degrade into absurdity. A stripper was not allowed to use a prop shower in her stage act because the shower stall was not wheelchair accessible. Someone want to explain how something this stupid helps the disabled? What is worrisome is that the ADA proponents are not satisfied with removing barriers to buildings, they want to legislate the removal of barriers to participation and force the acceptance of those with disabilities in all walks of life, even it certain walks of life are damaged or destroyed. I am surprised that the phrase "walks of life" has not yet been banned.

Of course I am going to get hate mail. But I don't have a problem with people with actual disabilities having ramps into libraries, or special parking spaces at the courthouse, or large print on government documents. But try as I might, I can't find the provision in my copy of the Constitution where the federal government is given the right to demand a private business build special accommodations for anyone. Where in the Bill of Rights is the Ramp amendment? Or the Parking Space amendment? Where is the right of access into non-taxpayer supported businesses? And who thinks Braille on the buttons of drive up ATMs should be dictated by federal law?