Texas Woman Forced to Leave Bus After Reading Bible Out Loud

[George2816]

A Texas woman is demanding an apology from her city’s mass transit system after she was booted off a bus for reading the Bible aloud, MyFoxDFW.com reported Monday.

Christine Lutz was on her way to church and reading passages to her children on The T bus when the driver suddenly interrupted her.

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

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Next thing Lutz knew, the bus had pulled over and she was being escorted into a supervisor’s van, which took the family to church, MyFoxDFW.com reported.

A spokeswoman for The T said even if Lutz had been reading "Moby Dick" or the Pledge of Allegiance, the same outcome would have occurred.

What do you guys think? Was she speaking to loud or was that something else?

 

[Godwynn]

Depends on if she was being a distraction or not.

 

[useless]

probably a distraction.

 

[kulade]

What do you guys think? Was she speaking to loud or was that something else?

We can't know if she was really speaking too loud, so there's little of a judgment call to make.

 

[emzie]

After breaking their rules, the transit system put her in a van and took her to her destination. That's more than fair.

 

[zxcvbnm]

I hate people who shout aloud in public transport. Some religious people get really loud sometimes, so I don't think this is any anti-religious conspiracy, but just caring about the other passengers.

 

[nivi]

If being a distraction enough to get you thrown out, can we please do it to people who apparently haven't heard of deodorant?

 

[zxcvbnm]

If being a distraction enough to get you thrown out, can we please do it to people who apparently haven't heard of deodorant?

I've been asking the public transport companies to do that for years, without results

 

[Mango]

She should have read the Koran. Then she would have a case for a lawsuit.

 

[hossam]

She should have read the Koran. Then she would have a case for a lawsuit.

lawsuit? why

 

[zxcvbnm]

lawsuit? why

Because sometimes muslims are more sensitive about their religion than most others

 

[hossam]

Because sometimes muslims are more sensitive about their religion than most others

well im pretty sure she could still be a sensitive christian.

 

[Azale]

If she got kicked off a bus for reading the bible too loud in TEXAS, she must have been shouting at the top of her lungs.

 

[zxcvbnm]

well im pretty sure she could still be a sensitive christian.

There are tons of those around too, and you are absolutely right, she might very well sue the company for some "religious persecution", but the muslim world generally feels threatened, like Europe in the middle ages, and thus some tend to take things "personally"

 

[mitsho]

But it has nothing to do with religion? It is about liberty and confining the liberty of someone else by being too loud in a bus, or rather by violating the rules the mass transit has set up, 'being too loud' is actually no infraction of liberty.

m

 

[zxcvbnm]

No, but as I said, some people (of whom many are muslims for reasons I stated there) take such things as personal attacks against their religion

 

[George2816]

No, but as I said, some people (of whom many are muslims for reasons I stated there) take such things as personal attacks against their religion

The same thing can be said about some christans!

 

[azzaman333]

Such as the woman on this bus.

 

[zxcvbnm]

So true, I hate those people

 

[Newbunkle]

Good for them. She has no respect for her fellow passengers. Was there some kind of religious emergency which required her to read the bible out loud to the other passengers? What was the nature of the passages she read? These are the things we need to know dammit!

Edit: Ok, I read the first post a bit more carefully. She was trying to "teach kids". I think there's some law somewhere that parents get to choose what kind of education their children get, so she might have been violating that by teaching them religion against their parents wishes.