Sorry, but the kid does sound like he certainly is causing dangerous situations, and the parents are unwilling to accept the realities of this. I feel for them, but I don’t believe the church is out of line based on the history of behavior alledged and admitted to by the parents.
This may be necessary, but I wish they would also ban Pelosi, Kennedy and all the other pro-abortion “Catholics” from Communion. (BTW, I hear the KC Archbishop did just that with the Rat Kansas governor!)
IF the child is truly disruptive, the parents should have sense enough to keep him out of the services.
Their rights (and their son’s rights) end where the rights of others begin.
Very simple: if your Church doesn’t want you in the congregation, go elsewhere.
The responses from the parents to these particulars are not sufficient.
It seems to me the parish has done the unfortunately necessary thing. Six feet, 225?
I find it interesting that the mother acknowledges the behavior problems.
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I’d have to side with the Church on this one. It is apparent that the child has outgrown whatever control the parents had over him.
Mr. Spock said it the best, “The needs of the many far outweigh the needs of the few or the one.”
If your child is loud and disruptive, then he or she does not belong in church disrupting the other parishioners. For the priest to have done this means that the parents were probably asked more than once to not bring the child to mass.
If you have to tie someone in restraints to take them to Church, they probably don’t belong there. At least not at the regular service.
The parents want the boy to be treated as a normal child. If that were the case the parents should be arrested for tying him up and sitting on him. In the normal world that is child abuse.
Fox news beat this story to death this morning.
For me, this is the key bit of evidence. The church tried to work with and accommodate the family's needs but the family turned them down. I would like to know why. Was there something wrong or somehow insulting about the accommodations or was the family simply being unreasonable? There are a lot of big holes in this story that need to be filled before anyone passes judgment on anyone else and yet, the media rants away.
Meaning what? They are going to sue the church into making an accomodation in a private organization? An orginzation which has suggested alternatives in the past which have been rejected?
A cousin of mine worked in a downtown public library which got basically turned into a hangout for the homeless due to these asinine public accomodation laws. Eventually, they ended up closing the downtown branch because the people who actually wanted to use it as a library got tired of sharing it with the local winos.
This huge and out-of-control kid pees in Church. It's outrageous that the parents would continue to bring him to service. A handicap is not carte blanche to do anything you like, anywhere you like. The kid should be institutionalized and the parents need a reality check.
She also said they do use soft straps to bind Adam's hands and feet on occasion because it calms him, as does the revving sound of engines, which is why he started the cars.
You have to SIT on your child? And because you must do so, you thought it perfectly reasonable that he pulled a girl onto himself?? Occasional problems with incontinence??
Any adult with these problems would not be allowed unfettered access to a public place such as a church -- are we to proclaim any time the safety of the public outweighs the personal needs of one individual it is always discrimination, unfair, mean??
Last time I checked, the cry room was provided so that the concentration/praying of rest of the congregation would not be interrupted by infants. I don't believe that for a 225-pound youth who is unable to control his actions unless his parents are sitting on him, this is a reasonable option.
My mother was physically unable to attend Mass for several years -- Monsignor Cronin brought Holy Communion to her every week, and I recall a few occasions where he said Mass in our home, other family, neighbors attending. This family does not have to disrupt an entire church this way in order for them to practice the Faith.
Dear Parents,
The world is not your daycare center.
While I applaud their efforts to mainstream their son and while I feel for their difficulties, I don't see how their pastor could allow this behavior to continue - especially when you have someone assaulting other parishioners and breaking into cars.
He says he offered accomodation: what did he offer?