Woman Escorted Off Bus For Reading Bible Aloud

CBS 11 News ^ | December 31, 2007 | Carol Cavazos

[Turret Gunner A20]

FORT WORTH: A passenger on a Fort Worth bus says the T. Bus Service discriminated against her religion.

Christine Lutz says she was reading her Bible to her children when the bus driver asked her to stop or get off the bus

[Turret Gunner A20]

I wonder if she will donate the money to the church if she wins her lawsuit?

***shuurrr she will***

[kjam22]

I’d guess that she will tithe on it.

[G8 Diplomat]

That’s right, be good little dhimmis....

I swear, is the the United States of America or Saudi America?

[silentreignofheroes]

Grow up boy,,

[AU72]

Sam Jackson should take that bus:

"And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you!" ...

[1rudeboy]

And I said, 'Oh, but it's the perfect time and the perfect place since it is our Sabbath and it is the time with the Lord and therefore I'm going to continue.' And I continued," she explained.

Sure, lady. I'm on my way home from the tavern. Mind if I belch?

[ozaukeemom]

As long as someone reading anything aloud would have been treated the same, I don’t see anything discriminatory. But, if it is only because it is the Bible, then....

[HD1200]

Now if it would have been a Quran....she would have been allowed to stand and read to all for fear of “offending” her.

[1rudeboy]

It’s the interior of a bus.

[Signalman]

To me, the fact that she is reading the bible is irrelevant. The real issue is, she was reading it aloud, which is an annoyance and disturbs the other people on the bus. Therefore she deserved to be removed from the bus.

[Always Right]

To me, the fact that she is reading the bible is irrelevant. The real issue is, she was reading it aloud, which is an annoyance and disturbs the other people on the bus. Therefore she deserved to be removed from the bus.

Only if they remove other people for talking to their children.

[Texas Eagle]

Meanwhile, here in The People's Republic of California (thanks to SB777), starting tomorrow we can go to jail for using words like "he", "she", "mother", "father", etc. In short, any words that pertain to a person's sex (I know everyone says "gender" but that is incorrect usage of the word) can get you thrown in the slammer.

Thank you Arnold. You're a great man. Errrr...human of non-descript sexual personage.

[wastedyears]

This in Texas?????

[Blueflag]

Methinks she doth need to read Matthew 6, beginning at verse 1 ...

[caseinpoint]

This sort of thing plays right into the hands of Chrisian-haters. It is inappropriate to read aloud in an enclosed space with strangers who have no choice but to be there whether one is reading the Bible, the Communist Manifesto, Stephen King books, or anything else. It is as bad form as talking loudly on the phone. She should have had more class.

[Jackknife]

"Anyone who is loud will be asked to be quiet," said representative Joan Hunter. "That is a standard policy across country in the transit industry."

I ride public transit for part of my commute to and from work each day here in Atlanta, and I have no problem with this. As a Christian, I many times will have my devotional reading and prayer to myself on the bus, and I don't see this as any kind of persecution. What I would have a problem with is if the same driver/supervisor let someone rapping loudly with their headphones on, remain on the same bus. As long as the policy is used across the board, there should not be a problem.

[VOA]

"Now if it would have been a Quran....she would have been allowed to
stand and read to all for fear of “offending” her."

Of course.
Because the odds that the Quran-reading lady has a bomb-belt,
a folded-stock AK-47 or a rusty beheading knife on her person would
be about three or four orders of magnitude higher...
than if she was reading from The Holy Bible.

[Publius]

Only if they remove other people for talking to their children.

Bull! I went through a similar experience on a Los Angeles bus during the Eighties. A woman who must have weighed over 300 pounds sat down next to a tiny Filipina lady and began to proseltyze. The Filipina just looked straight ahead and made no attempt to encourage the very loud 300 pound evangelist. But she looked scared.

There are those of us who do not wish to be assaulted by people's sexual, religious or political beliefs on a public conveyance. Your right to proselytize in a cramped, public space ends where my ear begins.

[onja]

Good thing. I don’t want people disrupting my ride and then stubbornly refusing to stop when asked and ordered.

[Popman]

To me, the fact that she is reading the bible is irrelevant. The real issue is, she was reading it aloud, which is an annoyance and disturbs the other people on the bus. Therefore she deserved to be removed from the bus.

Well, according to both the article and the video clip that went with it, the bus driver asked her to stop reading, no other passenger were mentioned.

I find it hard to believe she was that loud enough to give the driver of the bus a problem.

Buses aren't exacting quiet to begin with and she could have been asked to move to the back.