MILWAUKEE — A passenger who said she was escorted off a public bus for giving a Bible to another rider has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn a transit policy prohibiting distribution of any literature.
Gail Anderson, 56, had been offering the Bible to fellow passengers since she began riding the bus regularly in mid-1999, according to a complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee.
On one occasion during the summer of 2002, Anderson offered the Bible to those seated around her, but the bus driver told her to stop, the complaint said. After she failed to comply, Anderson said the driver ordered her off the Milwaukee County Transit System bus.
Bus riders are banned from distributing any form of advertising or literature, according to the transit policy.
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