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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama Will Now Allow Yoga In Its Public Schools (But Students Can't Say 'Namaste')
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999020140/its-now-legal-to-practice-yoga-in-alabamas-public-schoolsAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill to allow public schools to offer yoga, ending a ban that stood for nearly 30 years. Christian conservatives who back the ban said yoga would open the door for people to be converted to Hinduism.
The new law allows yoga to be offered as an elective for grades K-12. While it erases a ban that, over the years, some schools had not realized existed, it also imposes restrictions on how yoga should be taught. Students won't be allowed to say, "Namaste," for instance. Meditation is not allowed.
"Chanting, mantras, mudras, use of mandalas, induction of hypnotic states, guided imagery, and namaste greetings shall be expressly prohibited," the bill states. It also requires English names be used for all poses and exercises. And before any students try a tree pose, they'll need a parent's permission slip.
According to veteran statehouse reporter Brian Lyman of the Montgomery Advertiser, the yoga ban's demise represents the end of "one of the stupidest moral panics in Alabama history, which is really saying a lot."
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)underpants
(182,823 posts)Wow.
Chautauquas
(4,441 posts)I might just come to the conclusion that people in the US are a bunch of insane assholes.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)What would be the "English" names for poses like "Tree" and "Downward Facing Dog"?
underpants
(182,823 posts)Even if they already have English word names you come up with something more English wordy there mister!!! 😡
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)underpants
(182,823 posts)Roll Tide.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Can't have that, since qgop is rooted in hatred. Sickening.
underpants
(182,823 posts)Hold it, what the f was I so pissed about? Moment
Iggo
(47,558 posts)Religion is stupid.
underpants
(182,823 posts)Sure. Thats the right kind.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)Yeah, I don't think they gave it that much thought.
Can't say a certain word, but you can own all the guns you want.
Ladies and gentleman: red-state America......
underpants
(182,823 posts)The pro-yoga legislation was opposed by conservative groups, including former state Chief Justice Roy Moore's Foundation for Moral Law, and the Alabama chapter of the Eagle Forum, a conservative group that was founded by activist Phyllis Schlafly in 1972.
"Yoga is a practice of Hindu religion," the Eagle Forum of Alabama said in an email that urged maintaining the ban. It added, "Religious practice in the school's constitutes a violation of the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment as public schools cannot promote the practice or ideology of religion."
The group also alleges that each yoga pose was designed not as an exercise but to "be an offering of worship" to Hindu gods.
Vinca
(50,273 posts)Tree Lady
(11,470 posts)It means I bow to the divine in you, I heard it means The god in me bows to the god in you.
I see that as a gift we give to each other of seeing the good in each other.
underpants
(182,823 posts)The genesis of the Alabama name is believed to have come from a fusion of two Choctaw words, Alba and Amo. Alba means "vegetation," while Amo refers to "gatherer." The name "vegetation gatherers" would fit the Alabama Indians who cleared the land for farming.
sanatanadharma
(3,707 posts)Can't have any of that all-people-are-equal thinking-behavior.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)bahboo
(16,339 posts)I along with friends, would have worn namaste t-shirts to class and have it play out.
Mad_Machine76
(24,412 posts)This is it here. For THEM, NOT everybody else.
EYESORE 9001
(25,939 posts)insisting that kundalini yoga was absolutely satanic.
underpants
(182,823 posts)Ka-Dinh Oy
(11,686 posts)are they talking about proper English or that backwood slang?
underpants
(182,823 posts)Ka-Dinh Oy
(11,686 posts)The "Dogs got worms again" was my favorite.
underpants
(182,823 posts)Day Drinker. Thank F thats over.
I was looking for something else and just found that.
mopinko
(70,112 posts)if i had a kid that age, i would send them there.