Church Bars Family of Autistic Child from Church

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If the big boy keeps getting dragged to Sunday Mass, sooner or later the police will get involved. And from there, lawyers, lawsuits, trials, media feeding frenzy. If police are in fact required to defuse a violent situation with nonlethal force, what then? How bad does this train-wreck have to get before people seroiously reconsider?

Does someone have to get scarred for life or physically maimed before it sinks in?

Way back when I was a church-goer, there was a separate room off the side of the main church hall which was unnoffically used as a respite area for parents and kids. During the sermons, if infants got a little bit noisy, the parent would take the kid to the room. In this room was an intercom which relayed whatever was being said by the preacher man through a speaker, so that the parents wouldn't miss any part of the sermon.
This very same setup could have been used in this case. Except it would be for the boys respite (Respite from the crowd and all that lame singing. Any bet there are loud musical instruments too ) The mum and dad could take turns supervising him in the room and not miss church.
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS ARE REQUIRED, PEOPLE!

I'd like to note that the only one alleging that the boy's behavior is violent is the priest, who apparently also told the mother that she is not disciplining her boy properly. Also, that he has not actually hurt anyone--ever--despite years of going to that church, and being strong enough to hurt people even accidentally.

I don't see why they couldn't just have used the cry room, though. If he was being noisy in church, he could still have seen and participated from there.

Stop acting like there is anything wrong here.

The kid doesn't have to go to church any more. That is a GOOD thing...
Nobody should be forced to go to church, let alone an Aut.
At least this way he is marginally less likely to get zombified.

As for this case, if he is in fact violent, he should not be allowed in the Church for the safety of others. It does seem that his violent behavior is so far unproven, and I would say that banning him is discriminatory if the alleged violence turns out to be an exaggeration of something less serious. But more importantly, I agree with all those who said this should be about him and what's really best for him, not what the parents wish was best for him. The first question that needs to be asked is does he want to go to church, and if not what benefit is there for him being there? Can he learn anything or experience any spiritual enlightenment, if he can't concentrate on what the priest and readers say? I would hope that his parents would not think that God would punish him for not attending a service that is essentially meaningless to him.