I’m going to be bold here.  I have a topic which I’m very passionate about and I don’t understand why the church isn’t as open about it.  I’m very passionate about people with special needs.  I have Aspergers Syndrome myself.  Whenever I have talked about this with Christians I always get the response that if you have enough faith Jesus will heal you, or its because your not trying.  I have never heard once any of the following brought up:

Exd 4:10-11 (NIV) 
Moses said to the Lord, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” The Lord said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

So God just told Moses that he makes people deaf, blind, and mute and knowingly does it!  Jesus went as far as to say this:

John 9:1-3 
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

John 11:3;4
So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Wow, people are made this way for the glory of God.  God knew people would be made this way and he allows it for his Glory!  I have Aspergers and I see the gifts that it sometimes get through it.  The unique ability to learn technology rather quickly, the unique ability to see the world from the prospective of the disabled and the non-disabled.  Paul even very likely had a disability or something that was different about him:

2nd Corinthians 12:8-10
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

So our weaknesses as people with disabilities is actually our strength.  I have noticed that a friend of mine who is cognitively impaired is the most faithful and in touch person with God I know.  She says things that are biblical, is caring, and she really doesn’t even try.  She just depends on God.

But I don’t quite get why we throw this roadblock in front of people that God chooses to create this way.  Why do we as Christians lead those people astray or quietly sit and say nothing when we see others leading them astray.  As Christians we are called to follow Jesus’s teachings and I know Jesus is often compared to a Sheppard that would not let a lamb go astray – so why do we?

God is very clear on what the consequences are on things like this:

Lev 9:14(NLT)
Show your fear of God by treating the deaf with respect and by not taking advantage of the blind. I am the Lord.

Deu 27:18(NIV)
“Cursed is the man who leads the blind astray on the road.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

I really think this refers not to a physical road, but the spiritual road.  I kinda wonder why you never really hear about this in a church.  What makes this so taboo that its dealt with all hush hush.  To tell you the truth it makes me really upset.