Friday, January 04, 2008

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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