A situation that’s been the news and discussed on talk radio is that of the Catholic pastor up in Minnesota issuing a restraining order barring  a family from bringing their son with autism to Mass.
There is an informative, balanced discussion of this going on at Autism Vox.
Update:  This blog post is really worth reading – it contains a letter from a priest who knows Carol Race, the mother in question, as well as a response from the blogger, the mother of a daughter with autism.

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