I am above the rules if it's my religion...

I would guess that she was really trying to read it loud enough so that everyone on the bus could hear and was using the children as an excuse.

People have conversations every day with their seat mates on buses and planes without problems.

 

Whether she was talking about the Bible, her kids or midget porn, the rules are pretty clear: if a passenger complains, then the transit officials have an obligation to act and enforce the rules. Seems pretty cut and dried to me.

 

Considering she was a seventh day adventist, which is considered fringe Christianity, someone religious might have been turned off. Seventh-day adventists aren't quite the aggressive Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses when it comes to door-knocking, in-your-face evangelism, but those who are Southern Baptists, Methodists, etc., have been known to run in the other direction when around them. Note I said SOME.

 

I was going to ask markvid why he hated America, but then I remembered he's talking about Texas.

 

Can you explain how her particular religion plays ANY factor in this? Seriously. Why does it matter that she's an adventist?

 

Because he's searching for a way to make this into religious persecution rather than some jerk refusing to respect the rules.

 

How would anyone on the bus, including the driver, know she's an Adventist? Does she have it tattooed on her forehead?

 

It was a Saturday and she made a reference to this being her day of sabbath.

 

So? I didn't know that makes one an Adventist. How many average people would?

 

Again. She was asked to stop. She refused and, if I'm reading her own quote properly, she was a jerk about it. And now she wants to play the victim because somebody actually held her accountable for her arrogance.

 

I'm no religion expert (or religious), but if somebody says it's their sabbath and it's Saturday, Seventh Day Adventist is going to be my first guess.

Don't misinterpret me, though. I think she should have stopped when told to stop.

 

In her part of the country? More than you'd guess, probably.

That said, she should have stopped when she was asked.