Really It Just Jumped Out At Me!

(Disclaimer: Rather then emailing the following to a handful of my professors and telling them that I will hold them accountable for inclusion, I am simply posting this here.)

I finally get it! I finally understand why Claremont School of Theology does not include the disability perspective in the program and none of the classes require Nancy Eiesland's The Disabled God: Toward A Liberatory Theology of Disability as required reading . . .they can't . . .it might cause rebellion:) They really don't want us to read this:

"People with disabilities are subject to prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory acts by the able-bodied majority, who consider people with disabilities inferior and use environmental segregation by way of built architectural barriers, as means of keeping a social and physical distance. A prime example is colleges and universities that ostensibly admit academically qualified people with disabilities yet do not provide specialized facilities or necessary services, thus making matriculation for these students exceptionally difficult. Simply ignoring the special needs of people with disabilities constitutes discrimination."
(Nancy Eiesland, from the book "The Disabled God", page 63)

Oops! I wonder if they know there are copies of the book in the library and the bookstore . . . So much for breadth and depth of theological knowledge, much less a commitment to social action and justice!