Church Files Restraining Order Against Autistic Boy

After trying to accommodate the family of an autistic boy, Bertha's Church of Saint Joseph filed a restraining order preventing him from attending mass. He was disrupting the service, knocking people over (including the elderly), urinating in the church (adult diaper anyone?), spitting, and bolting from the church and starting someone else's car. The church offered to perform the mass at home (which most will do for the sick), or to provide him a room at the church with a tv. Just imagine the sensory overload of attending church; all of the noise, the people, the smells. But the mother wasn't having it.
I feel sorry for the family, sometimes you feel trapped at home. But the church has to protect the safety of the rest of the parishioners. My son has autism, and I would never take him somewhere that he would endanger others. He is terrified of doctors and needles. I sedate him before taking him to the lab because I know that he may hit a lab technician, or move when they are poking him and cause him unnecessary pain. And we go over what to expect at the doctors office starting two weeks before an appointment. Just because a child has autism doesn't mean that the rules do not apply. It is the rare child that wants to sit through church anyway.
WCSH6.com via Perez Hilton of all places.