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Alice Kellogg was astounded when the head of her church's Sunday school told her that other parents didn't want her daughter in class because she has autism.

They told him they'd leave the church if Victoria was excluded, Kellogg recalled.

"The youth pastor said, 'Good luck at your next church,'æ" said Kellogg, who lives in Naperville. "To have them do that was just very hurtful.

Kellogg's experience is not isolated. Former Naperville resident Alyson Beytien, who has three children with varying degrees of autism, encountered similar trouble and knows of six other families of different faiths who essentially had their church's doors shut on them.

"That's earth shattering to a family that's already struggling with so many areas of their lives," Beytien said. "You call that Christian? You call that accepting to say, 'You're not perfect so you're not welcome?'æ"

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