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Old 05-21-2008, 03:40 PM
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Autism in Church: What Would Jesus Do?

There's been a big to-do over the last week here in the Twin Cities about a Catholic priest barring an autistic child from attending mass. The "child" is actually 13, weighs 225 pounds, struck a child during mass, fought efforts to restrain him, pulled an adolescent girl to his lap and revved the engine of someone else's car, among other things. The priest claims they had tried working out a solution with the family, but after the family repeatedly ignored any attempts at a reasonable solution they were forced to put a restraining order on the child. The family tried to show up anyway and the sheriff had to get involved, and now it's a big local story.

http://www.startribune.com/local/190...r=$sectionName


Anyway, I added "what would Jesus do" because this has been quoted in defense of letting the family and the boy continue attending, in the same fashion as before with no restrictions. What do you think? Should he stay or should he go, and yes, what would Jesus do?
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