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Do you think it was wrong for this church to kick out a family with an autistic child, who sometimes disrupted services?

The mother of an autistic boy who was banned from attending services at a Catholic church in Bertha, Minn., woke up Sunday determined to take her son to mass. But Carol Race changed her mind when sheriffs met her at the end of her driveway and told her she would be arrested if she brought her son, Adam, into the Church of St. Joseph. Instead, Race took Adam and her four other children to mass at Christ the King Church in nearby Browerville, Minn. The dispute has drawn attention to what Race and advocates for the disabled say is a lack of education and understanding about autism. Race said that even though her son, who is home-schooled, sometimes acts up in church, the experience benefits him. "He has a sense of the routine," she said. "That's one of the beautiful things about the Catholic mass for autistic individuals, its routine."

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