MADD ejects paralyzed woman

Mothers Against Drunk Driving started out as a respectable organization, but it lost its credibility years ago. MADD is now shunned even by its own founder, who says it's become a prohibition group. Indeed, when temperance groups fell out of fashion, their members opted to join MADD to influence that group.

In Idaho, a woman who was left seriously injured by a drunk driver had arranged to appear at various MADD events, including MADD's tent at Ada County's Western Idaho Fair. The woman had suffered a brain injury, is paralyzed, has to use a feeding tube, and is blind in one eye.

But MADD ejected the woman from their tent at the fair because they deemed the sight of the paralyzed woman "too graphic." An employee of the company that manages the county-owned fair reportedly told the woman's husband, "I want you to take that woman and I want you to leave the premises." MADD also removed the couple from its volunteer list.

Now the couple has filed a complaint with the Idaho Human Rights Commission and the ACLU against MADD and the fair's management company.

MADD seemed to blame the whole incident on the media. A national MADD official sniffed, "I think that news reports are sensationalizing this a little bit, for sure."

This is what MADD has stooped to?

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/5/11268/5727/682/620715)