Reply #24: Seems reasonable to me... [View All]

[Silent3]

...or at least as reasonable as possible in the context of church attendance, which I consider to be an irrational enterprise to begin with.

Even if the boy's behavior were being exaggerated some, I still don't think that, even by any hypothetical lofty ideal of what "Christian charity" is supposed to be, it's reasonable to expect a group of people, gathered together for a specific purpose, intent on being able to concentrate on their proceedings, should have to toleration disruption of any sort week and week after week. The mother has other options. I doubt that the church teaches that attendance to mass each and every Sunday is the only hope of salvation that they offer. It's the mother who's being inconsiderate. She's not just expecting others to share her burden, she's multiplying the burden itself by bringing her child into an unsuitable enviroment for him, then expecting everyone to share that needlessly increased burden.

If the mother won't stop bringing her son when asked to do so, what choice does the church have other than to involve the police?