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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 05:09 PM
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9. Uh, public schools can have classes on the Bible ...
so long as they're taught from a secular approach, just as they can have classes in comparative religion. Yoga isn't itself a religion, only a technique used by a religion. I suppose that these nutcases would claim that meditation (which isn't even used as a term in the yoga curriculum in question) is itself a religious practice. But then, they'd probably argue that teaching comparative religion or the Bible as literature is a violation of separation: in fact, anything but teaching their own line they would see as prohibited.

Maybe instead of escaping yoga, this guy needs more of it. But maybe if he won't meditate, he should medicate. ;-)
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