IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, JOHN TRAVOLTA IS AN ASS

And I'm not even talking about dressing up as a 300-lb woman in some horrible movie remake. As seen in many articles across the web ...

According to the Church of Scientology, people with mental illnesses are "degraded" and capable of curing themselves by working harder on the church's teachings.

Tim Kenny, the father of a 4-year-old autistic girl who lives close to the Travolta estate, says that he was introduced the actor in February "as one autistic child's father to another" but that Travolta was in denial.

"Scientology is keeping him from acknowledging his son's autism. They see it as a weakness," he says.

I happen to know a school psychologist pretty well. First of all, autism is not a mental illness. It is a genetic developmental social disorder. It's not black and white either, there are grades of severity with autism. It's not cured with drugs or anything, in fact, it's not cureable at all.

Basically, autistic kids are put into programs to help them overcome and build social skills. The sooner school psychologists are able to intervene and get them into a program right for them, the better chance they have of overcomming autism.

So there you have it! Dogma gets in the way fact-based science once again! And it's even called Scientology ...how ironic.

In related news ... in my religion (Bunsenism), you go to hell if you ingest any vitamin C. Sorry kids, you'll just have to pray that much harder if you want your scurvy to go away.