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TEXAS WOMAN THROWN OFF BUS FOR READING BIBLE:
Now she's demanding an apology

MyFoxDFW.com reports that a Texas woman was forced to get off a bus for reading the Bible out loud. The woman is now demanding an apology from her city's mass transit system.  
  
Christine Lutz was on the bus headed for church and was reading passages to her children when the driver suddenly interrupted her.

“She asked me to stop reading my Bible,” Lutz told MyFoxDFW.com. “I said, “No, I’m reading the Bible, I’m teaching the kids, I’m going to continue. And I continued.”

She refused and told the driver, no, she was teaching her kids. 

Next thing Lutz knew, the bus had pulled over and she was being escorted into a supervisor’s van, which took the family to church, MyFoxDFW.com reported.

A spokesperson from the transit system said that "even if Lutz had been reading "Moby Dick" or the Pledge of Allegiance, the same outcome would have occurred.

Many residents have responded to this incident.

Dallas’ Andrea Thompson says, “This is an outrage. We cannot even have freedom of speech, to read something aloud to our children. I am sure that more people on the bus needed to hear that information.”

Cedric Turner of Arlington agreed. “We cannot let others dictate what we do. We say that America is land of the free but it is not true. Everything we do, has to be approved by society or by the government. I truly disagree with the spokesperson from the transit. If she was reading something from Moby Dick or saying the pledge no one would have cared.” 

 

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