Court upholds restraining order in Race case

A judge upheld the restraining order in the case of the autistic boy banned from church.

"Is this the kind of road and precedents we want to set our kids on with special needs in the future?" said Brad Trahan, founder of the RT Autism Foundation in Rochester and the father of an 8-year-old autistic boy.

"I totally understand that the church environment in this case has to be safe.

"But the bottom line is one out of 150 births includes an autistic child and as a society we have to deal with it. We have to be able to go out to church and restaurants and events as one family.

"There are no winners in this situation. The church doesn't win. The family doesn't win, and Adam doesn't win."

via startribune.com

Carol Race, the boy's mother, who represented herself at the hearing for the restraining order, has indicated that she will hire an attorney. Autism Vox posted about the boy's ban from St. Joseph's earlier and commentors over there noted, as I've written, that there appears to be a lot of vagueness in reporting about attempts to mediate this situation.