Dec 30, 2007 10:15 pm US/Mountain
Woman Claims Reading Bible Got Her Booted Off Bus
FORT WORTH (CBS) ―
A passenger says the Fort Worth bus service discriminated against her religion, CBS station KTVT-TV in Dallas reported.
Christine Lutz says she was reading her Bible to her children when the bus driver asked her to stop or get off the bus.
Lutz, a Seventh Day Adventist, and her children were on their way to church.
Lutz claims the driver told her it wasn't the time or place to read the bible. "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," Lutz said.
A supervisor came aboard the bus. Lutz also told him that she would not stop reading. She and her family were escorted off the bus.
"This was definitely a clear cut case of persecution," Lutz said.
Or was it a clear cut case of policy?
"Anyone who is loud will be asked to be quiet," said Trinity Railway Express bus service representative Joan Hunter. "That is a standard policy across country in the transit industry."
It doesn't matter what is said, the company has a policy of no loud or abusive behavior.
"It's only if the other passengers will complain, or it's obviously so loud it's distracting the operator, that we will ask them to stop," Hunter explained.
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