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Monday, December 31, 2007

Persecution or Just Rude Behavior?

I'm going to rude behavior on this one:
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ― 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.

Lutz, a Seventh Day Adventist, and her children were on their way to church.

"She then said, 'Well I don't think this is the place or the time to do so.' 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.

Then, a TRE supervisor came on board. 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," she said.

Or was it a clear cut case of policy?
I've got to side with the bus company on this one. Just because you're reading a Bible (or whatever your holy text might be) does not give you the right to disturb others on public transport. The lady was wrong to continue when she was asked to stop and any complaint of religious persecution is self-righteous delusion.

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