Bible-Reading Woman Kicked Off Fort Worth Bus
That a woman reading the Bible to her children would be noisy stretches credulity. Extremely noisy schoolkids are routinely permitted on most buses that I know of. It seems obvious that WHAT she was reading was the “problem”:
“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….
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.
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Posted by JonJayRay on January 3, 2008 8:15 am
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This story shouldn’t be about a woman reading a bible to her children. Maybe it was early in the morning, and the other people on the bus just didn’t want to hear it. Or it was in the evening when most of the bus is coming home from a long day at work.
I ride a bus every morning into DC, and I can NOT STAND it when someone at 7:30 in the morning, is talking on their cell phone, having a loud conversation, or anything of the like. I want peace and quiet at that Un-Godly time of the morning. So I can understand the reaction.
Here’s a question. Would you be reporting this story , if the woman had been reading Dr. Suss and had gotten kicked off the bus??? I highly doubt it. Not everything is Anti-Christian (as much as you want it to be).
“Here’s a question. Would you be reporting this story , if the woman had been reading Dr. Suss and had gotten kicked off the bus???”
Seuss?
Probably not, but plenty of liberals would be.
I don’t know if she was shouting at her kids as she read …I doubt it.
I don’t know if the driver was acting in response to several complaints from other riders.
I don’t know if she was asked to tone it down a bit or not.
I will say this:
If she was reading in a conversational tone, and this is the standard we go by, then all conversation must be banned from all public transportation.
Cheers!
Was there a “quiet” sign on the bus like in the library?