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Reverend BILL GAVENTA<\/strong> (Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities): In every faith community there is a scriptural basis for welcome and hospitality. But you\u2019ve also got congregations who live in cultures where people with disabilities have been hidden and ostracized and devalued in lots of ways, and too often faith communities sanctify prejudices in the community rather than challenge them. It shouldn\u2019t be easier to get into a bar than a church.<\/p>\n

SAFIYYAH A. MUHAMMAD<\/strong>: When I think back as a child, I don\u2019t remember seeing anyone like Sufyaan at the mosque, no one. I don\u2019t remember any children or adults like Sufyaan attending the mosque, and I don\u2019t think that was by mistake. I think that we parents look at it as not just a distraction but an embarrassment. But he deserves to pray. He has a right to faith, too.<\/p>\n

Well, the first time that Sufyaan attended the mosque not only was he talking out loud and using his hand motions, but he was running in and out of the rows. It wasn\u2019t received well. There were whispers, there were talk: \u201cHe\u2019s a bad kid. He obviously wasn\u2019t raised right. That\u2019s bad parenting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ImamImam W. DEEN SHAREEF<\/strong> (Masjid Waarith Ud Deen, Irvington, NJ): I think the primary challenge is a lack of knowledge, because sometimes families conceal the information that they have family members that have disabilities. Sister Safiyyah Muhammad made us aware of her son\u2019s disability in terms of autism, and she\u2019s made it almost like a quest for our community to become more knowledgeable about it.<\/p>\n

SAFIYYAH<\/strong>: When the Koran refers to the believers it doesn\u2019t say the believers except for the insane. Love for your brother what you want for yourself, and Sufyaan, autism or not, is considered a brother to another person who does not have autism.<\/p>\n

Rev. GAVENTA<\/strong>: I\u2019ve had families say to me, \u201cI\u2019ve fought all week to get my kid included in a school or whatever. I shouldn\u2019t\u2014I don\u2019t want to have to fight when it comes to Sunday morning or Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n

CYNTHIA MCCURDY<\/strong> (to her children): Are you guys ready to go?<\/p>\n

In other families that I\u2019ve talked to there\u2019s been numerous instances of \u201cWe don\u2019t know what to do with your kind\u201d or \u201cPlease don\u2019t come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

(to daughter Katie): Okay, that looks good.<\/p>\n

\"\"FEMALE VOICE AT CHURCH<\/strong>: Katie\u2019s going to definitely do the sign language.<\/p>\n

KATIE<\/strong>: Hello.<\/p>\n

WOMAN<\/strong>: You look nice in your white top.<\/p>\n

KATIE<\/strong>: Why thank you.<\/p>\n

BOY<\/strong>: How you been?<\/p>\n

CYNTHIA<\/strong>: We noticed that people with disabilities were missing from communities of faith. It wasn\u2019t that people with disabilities didn\u2019t exist. They just weren\u2019t being invited and welcomed into their houses of worship.<\/p>\n

KATIE<\/strong>: I carry the banners that like, kind of like a spirit does too. And the Gospel, I have to read the Gospel. I have to study for it. Then we read the Gospel.<\/p>\n

Pastor MARK SINGH-HUETER<\/strong> (St. Paul\u2019s Lutheran Church, Exton, PA, addressing congregation): We begin in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear Lord, forgive the things I have done\u2026<\/p>\n

Everything\u2019s presented in a way that really is much more interactive, whether they\u2019re in the choir, whether they\u2019re part of the skit, whether they\u2019re doing readings, and so everybody gets to use their gifts and get involved.<\/p>\n

BILLY<\/strong>: I\u2019m reaching up to the Lord because of my voice. I can sing unto his praise.<\/p>\n

\"\"SUSAN<\/strong>: Frankly, I would not feel comfortable just walking into any church for a service because of the noisiness, and we usually make some kind of a scene\u2014like we are right now, pulling hair\u2014where here, you know, we really don\u2019t have to worry about it. A lot of times when we\u2019re out in public, Joshua does experience a lot of stares when we go into restaurants and things. So we find that we really don\u2019t go to a lot of the public places. This is wonderful, because not only does he get time to come and be exposed to worship, but I get to come back to church, too.<\/p>\n

CYNTHIA<\/strong>: When I see individuals of all abilities feeling free to be themselves and to worship as God has intended them to be, I feel the Holy Spirit moving within everyone.<\/p>\n

Rev. GAVENTA<\/strong>: Faith communities have gone from doing nothing to doing special things for people, with this sort of special services for special people and special religious education, to then hearing families and others say don\u2019t do anything special for us. Just include us.<\/p>\n

Rabbi DAN GROSSMAN<\/strong> (Adath Israel Congregation, Lawrenceville, NJ): Several families moved to this community because we make it an inclusive community. I don\u2019t want a synagogue that doesn\u2019t let Jews in. Isaac was blind\u2014in most synagogues he couldn\u2019t find his way around. Moses stuttered\u2014in most synagogues he couldn\u2019t read from the Torah that\u2019s called the Books of Moses. So you got to create the environment where everybody has a place, and if you start with that notion, then everything flows from there.<\/p>\n

\"\"SAM\u2019S MOTHER<\/strong>: We were at a different synagogue. Sam\u2019s autism, you know, outbursts occasionally, was really not tolerated. So we came here. Immediately the whole synagogue accepted us. He learned Hebrew and loves to be on the bema.<\/p>\n

Rabbi GROSSMAN<\/strong> (signing): So when I come back in the summer, in August, we can study together? Alright. You\u2019re a good guy.<\/p>\n

BOY AT SYNAGOGUE<\/strong>: Not many deaf people read the Torah. My dad always said to me I am better reading in Hebrew than English.<\/p>\n

Rabbi GROSSMAN<\/strong>: We have a reputation that we are a special needs community, when in fact that probably only makes up a small percentage of the active community in the synagogue. I think it defines the synagogue because it simply doesn\u2019t happen elsewhere.<\/p>\n

WOMAN<\/strong>: I happen to be married to a gentleman who\u2019s a quadriplegic and in a power wheel chair. There\u2019s lots of ways of creating access to the bema. But what\u2019s really special to him is that everyone uses the ramp. That\u2019s the first time he\u2019s felt\u2014when he\u2019s been in a synagogue, accessible or not\u2014where he\u2019s felt there\u2019s true inclusion.<\/p>\n

Rabbi GROSSMAN<\/strong>: There are seats that can accommodate wheelchairs in a row, so you\u2019re not stuck in an aisle separate from everybody else. There are large print prayer books, Braille prayer books. Most synagogues have Torahs usually higher; you have to lean forward into it. By having them free-hanging like this anyone can roll up literally in a wheelchair, take the Torah, lift it, and come out with it.<\/p>\n

FATHER<\/strong>: What would happen to these kids if a synagogue like this wasn\u2019t around?<\/p>\n

Rev. GAVENTA<\/strong>: If everybody is created in the image of God our community should be a reflection of the diversity and the wonder of God\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n

Rabbi GROSSMAN<\/strong>: I\u2019ve had so many people over the years say it feels like they\u2019re part of a real, living community as opposed to an artificial community where only perfect people are sitting here.<\/p>\n

SAFIYYAH<\/strong>: Some people would say what is he getting out of it? Why is he here? He\u2019s a distraction. We need prayer more than he does.<\/p>\n

But the fact is who\u2019s to determine who gets more blessings and who doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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