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Originally Posted by Gatorade Frost
In this case perhaps it was wrong for him to have removed the mentally handicapped man -but- many of us 'indecent' people feel that a priest should have the ability to remove a disruption regardless of his or her mental capacity.
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I find the idea of being kicked out of a church for anything short of running round naked and chasing the sisters a bit mind boggling, no?
It was a different kind of disruption. He was mentally handicapped and that fact alone means that the normal rules do not apply and special considerations have to be made. Not drastic measures, but a little common sense could've done a whole lot of good here.
Yes, there are rules. However, sometimes rules have to be bent a bit to accomodate our humanity. He's mentally handicapped. I don't know the particulars of the story, but there's a good chance that he couldn't control his "outburst." A small nod, a slight pause, maybe a bit of banter with the crowd; any of these would've done a lot more good than kicking the disabled kid out.