Bible-Reading Woman Kicked Off Fort Worth Bus

[Dos Equis]

Another example of anti-religious paranoia.

Bible-Reading Woman Kicked Off Fort Worth Bus 
 
Last Edited: Monday, 31 Dec 2007, 9:02 PM CST 
Created: Monday, 31 Dec 2007, 3:48 PM CST 

FORT WORTH  --  A Fort Worth woman wants an apology from the city's mass transit system because of how she was treated Saturday while on her way to church. Christine Lutz claimed she was kicked off The T for reading the Bible aloud to her children.

Lutz said she was sitting in the back of the bus, but wasn't being disruptive. She claimed she was stunned when the bus driver interrupted her reading.

"She asked me to stop reading my Bible," Lutz told FOX 4. "I said, 'No, I'm reading the Bible, I'm teaching the kids, I'm going to continue.' And I continued."

Lutz said the next thing she knew, the bus had pulled over and she was being escorted into a supervisor's van, which then took her and her family to church.

Officials at The T said the incident had nothing to do with what Lutz was reading, just the fact that she was simply making too much noise. Signs on the bus warn against playing radios and loud behavior.  Transportation officials claimed they asked Lutz to quiet down, and when she refused, they were forced to remove her from the bus.

"If she were reading 'Moby Dick' or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance or reading anything else, the same thing would have occurred," said The T's Joan Hunter.

But the Liberty Legal Institute, which has fought many legal battles over religious issues, said The T is out of line.

"I'm extremely shocked that a bus driver would pull over and take time out of his busy schedule in order to kick off a lady and her two kids while they're trying to read the Bible on their way to church," said Hiram Sasser of the Liberty Legal Institute. "They should be ashamed of that."

Lutz said all she is looking for is an apology. She said in her mind, what happened this past weekend was religious persecution, and she refuses to go along for the ride.

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[headhuntersix]

Maybe she was making to much noise..not a big deal, follow the rules or get bounched...but if one friggen Muslim decides to wash his feet in the station restrooms or decides to flip out his prayer rug, they better drag him out by his beard.

[w8tlftr]

Maybe she was making to much noise..not a big deal, follow the rules or get bounched...but if one friggen Muslim decides to wash his feet in the station restrooms or decides to flip out his prayer rug, they better drag him out by his beard.

I think you can find plenty of volunteers for that too.

[Straw Man]

Bum - do you even read the stuff before you post it?

from the story you posted:

Officials at The T said the incident had nothing to do with what Lutz was reading, just the fact that she was simply making too much noise. Signs on the bus warn against playing radios and loud behavior.  Transportation officials claimed they asked Lutz to quiet down, and when she refused, they were forced to remove her from the bus.

They didn't even kick her to the curb - a supervisor showed up and drove her and her kids to church.

Too bad everyone else had to be inconvenienced because this woman thought the rules didn't apply to her.

[Purge_WTF]

  I'm a Christian myself, but I suspect that this woman was reading loudly so that she'd get kicked off the train and then cry persecution. Same deal with Falwell claiming that one of the Teletubbies was a pole-smoker.

[Dos Equis]

I'm sure it's possible the woman was reading to her kids at the top of her lungs, but I doubt it.  And obviously "officials at the T" are going to say kicking her off had nothing do with the fact she was reading her Bible.  Duh.     Even if she was reading too loudly,  , pulling the bus over and throwing the woman and her kids off the bus was pretty silly.  Now they're a national story.  Complete overreaction. 

[Straw Man]

I'm sure it's possible the woman was reading to her kids at the top of her lungs, but I doubt it.  And obviously "officials at the T" are going to say kicking her off had nothing do with the fact she was reading her Bible.  Duh.     Even if she was reading too loudly,  , pulling the bus over and throwing the woman and her kids off the bus was pretty silly.  Now they're a national story.  Complete overreaction. 

simple solution - follow the rules.  If the driver tells you to pipe down then do it.

your assumption about anti-religious paranoia seems just a little paranoid - or at least a complete over-reaction.

[Tre]

Same deal with Falwell claiming that one of the Teletubbies was a pole-smoker.

Only one?