Praying passenger removed from flight (ethical, holidays, Canada, abortion)

[newtoli]

This is obviously part of the evil WAR ON CHRISTMAS (c)O'Reilly
:rolleyes

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by buildings_and_bridges

NEW YORK - A passenger who left his seat to pray in the back of a plane before it took off, ignoring flight attendants' orders to return, was removed by an airport security guard, a witness and the airline said.

Praying passenger removed from S.F.-bound flight at JFK - Yahoo! News (broken link)

Was this unreasonable?

Sounds like the person got kicked off because he did not follow orders to sit down when instructed to for safety reasons. I don't think it had anything to do with his wanting to pray specifically. Having him kicked off the plane was not unreasonable.

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by Exedous

Uh.. wtf kind of question is that? My mother prays when she gets in the car so God will keep her, and everyone else in the car from harm. A lot of people do this. It's preposterous why this would have happened in the first place. I bet anyone if he was wearing professional businessman clothes this wouldn't of happened. If I were this guy I would sue the crap out of the airlines for infringing on his right to freedom of speech.

I pray too before take-off when I fly but while I'm quietly, buckled in my seat. God never calls us to defy orders from airline personnel and hold up flights just so we can pray. God is everywhere so a Christian can pray in his seat and petition God for safety.

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by newtoli

This is obviously part of the evil WAR ON CHRISTMAS (c)O'Reilly
:rolleyes

[Huckleberry3911948]

you could be right but
i pray on flights every time never been removed. of course i am not sweating like crazy wearing a towel on my head and on the floor of the isle shouting allah allah.

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by msconnie73

Sounds like the person got kicked off because he did not follow orders to sit down when instructed to for safety reasons. I don't think it had anything to do with his wanting to pray specifically. Having him kicked off the plane was not unreasonable.

He should've had the common sense to follow air safety instructions first, and offer up his prayers afterward. But having him removed from the plane was just a tiny bit excessive.

Then again, excessive seems to be the pattern these days. Did you see that other thread going over the incident of the Florida schoolboy who was arrested for, apparently, farting in the classroom? OK, it seems he was carrying things to an unusual extreme. And the teacher didn't know what to do in what was obviously not the kind of situation they tell you about in college. But calling the police? And when they arrived, the only thing they could think to do was arrest him? (You can tell I'm not qualified to run a school, because I would've just had him taken out of the classroom).

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

you could be right but
i pray on flights every time never been removed. of course i am not sweating like crazy wearing a towel on my head and on the floor of the isle shouting allah allah.

I pray that the fares will someday be reduced and I can return to Maui.

Amen.

[01Snake]

Originally Posted by Yeledaf

I pray that the fares will someday be reduced and I can return to Maui.

Amen.

I pray that the guy that needs 2 seats to park his rear doesn't sit next to me.

[Esmeart]

Originally Posted by buildings_and_bridges

Uh, well, I can't promise that none of that's going on.

I'll have a look round, see whats going on.....
youre not a moderator, are you?
you sound kind of responsible...

[buildings_and_bridges]

Originally Posted by Esmeart

youre not a moderator, are you?
you sound kind of responsible...

Surely you jest. Nah, the moderators' usernames are bolded.