School Offers Yoga Classes For Kids, Parents Sue For Violation Of Religious Freedom

[ashling]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/24/school-offers-yoga-classes-for-pe-parents-sue-for-violation-of-religious-freedom/



Human beings fear what we do not understand. That’s simply a fact of life. Most functional adults understand this, and a great many of us, when faced with things we do not understand, seek to understand… instead of fearfully and thoughtlessly retaliating. Not so for a San Diego couple who is suing their child’s school for providing yoga classes. Why? They’re opposed to their child being made a “religious guinea pig,” and claim that the yoga classes are “inherently and pervasively religious.”

Republicans have taken this opportunity to offer us a sample of astounding hypocrisy, as evidenced by Dean Broyles, an attorney with the right-wing “legal defense organization” called the National Center for Law and Policy. This organization is representing the parents in their lawsuit. He stated that, “This is frankly the clearest case of the state trampling on the religious freedom rights of citizens that I have personally witnessed in my 18 years of practice as a constitutional attorney,” despite the fact that yoga is practiced across the country non-religiously and, in most venues, has nothing at all to do with any of the eastern religions associated with the creation or tradition of yoga.

In fact, the school, on its website, makes sure to state the fact:

“There is no discussion of spiritualism, mysticism, religion in any context. The students simply perform the physical components of movement and breathing related to mainstream yoga.”

[Shadowflash]

1. Yawn.

Same shit, different day.

'We're so persecuted!' whine, whine, whine.

[pipi_k]

2. Hmmm....maybe

they have confused "Yoga" with "Yoda", who, as we all know, was a master of the most dangerous religion of all...

Jedi-ism.

[Gorp]

3. "Confused, they may be. Learn the truth they must."

[SidDithers]

4. They should be offering good, wholesome, Christian Yoga...

http://www.christianyoga.us/home.htm
http://www.christianyoga.com/
http://holyyoga.net/

Seriously, sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. There were a few great threads about Christian Yoga that banged around DU a few years ago. Check the archives for the hilarity.

Another edit: Pat Robertson: Yoga is Evil
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2370996



Sid