Background on why yoga was banned
Bill to unban yoga failed to pass legislature
Bill to unban yoga is progress, but... I wonder if the sponsor knows "goodbye" is short for "God be with ye".
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Background on why yoga was banned
Bill to unban yoga failed to pass legislature
Bill to unban yoga is progress, but... I wonder if the sponsor knows "goodbye" is short for "God be with ye".
As someone with family in Alabama: fuck Alabama. It's like they're going out of their way to be as ignorant as possible.
They would be if he was alive right now.
He's as socialist as they come.
most yoga sessions are like, secular with ticklings of world spirituality. alabama is goofy as hell
Small minded fuckers. Imagine giving such stupid people the power to influence anyone else's behavior. Absurd.
Sounds like an Alabama thing to do. But it would be flipped in a second if Nick Saban said that he wanted his future recruits to start practicing yoga in school.
Oh Susan please do cry for me I can't do Yoga in Alabama to try to fix my knee.
This is beyond parody
This is beyond parody
There are good people there, but the states themselves are downright trash.
Everything but Jesus, and even then it's a perverted American Evangelical version of Jesus.
This kind of nonsense is useful only for state officials to show their voters how racist they are as well. There's no actual value in it as policy.
In other words, virtue signaling. In other words, the very shit conservatives accuse leftists of doing.
In other words, virtue signaling. In other words, the very shit conservatives accuse leftists of doing.
On one hand, I hate that white people and capitalism has watered down and commercialize yoga so much, and I also cringe every time white people casually exchange 'namaste' with other white people.
On the other hand, we all know the ban is due to racism/xenophobia, so fuck that ban. I'm sure they have no problem with schools teaching The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola.
On the other hand, we all know the ban is due to racism/xenophobia, so fuck that ban. I'm sure they have no problem with schools teaching The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola.
IANAL, things vary by state and I don't know about Alabama, and I haven't even read the article just the excerpts in the OP, this is just my vague understanding of "the norm" in the US. And glossing over the fact that yoga isn't actually religious: for now we'll accept the GOP's argument and assume that yoga is fundamentally equivalent to, say, Bible study:
Public schools in the US generally aren't allowed to have teacher-led prayer groups or Bible study. Even as electives. Student-led bible clubs are allowed, and so I would expect a student-led yoga club is also allowed, but teachers can't be involved.
That's my understanding of how the first amendment is applied to public schools: since teachers are acting as agents of the state, any endorsement by them of a religion is seen as state endorsement of that religion, and thus verboten.
EDIT: Or to put it another way: students are allowed to pray in school, but teachers aren't allowed to lead them in prayer. Similarly, I expect that while teachers aren't allowed to lead them in yoga, students are allowed to do yoga. Or lead each other in prayer/yoga. And to reiterate: this prayer/yoga equivalence is nonsense and I'm not endorsing it, just explaining how, under its presumption, the usual first amendment protections might apply.
Remember, if you're ever cornered by an angry mob in Alabama, use your knowledge of the movement of the planets to claim that an eclipse is your doing and that you won't give the sun back until they let you leave.
Tell you what Christian Faith healing sounds like it violates the ban, but I don't think they'll ban it for some reason...
As a (thankfully) former resident of Alabama, this is extremely on-brand.
Christ, what a shithole. Moving away from there was the best decision I've ever made.
Christ, what a shithole. Moving away from there was the best decision I've ever made.
Did not realize that the Yoga centers were hot bed for Hindu recruitment and conversion.
Someone ought to tell the legislators to ban Hindu-Arabic numerals from being taught in schools and used state-wide. Imagine good ol' faithful Christians being indoctrinated become some combination of Hindu and Muslim! *gasp*
Someone ought to tell the legislators to ban Hindu-Arabic numerals from being taught in schools and used state-wide. Imagine good ol' faithful Christians being indoctrinated become some combination of Hindu and Muslim! *gasp*
I bet you if they actually met Jesus, likely to look like a middle-eastern brown man, they would hate him too.
Legalizing the idea that it's criminal or unethical to make people even consider practicing a non-Christian religion seems to go against the very idea of freedom.
Who knew yoga centers were secretly Hindu recruitment centers
And who knows what type of insidiousness could come from...worshipping a different faith
And who knows what type of insidiousness could come from...worshipping a different faith
Lmao @ a ban on yoga since 1993.
This country is so dumb and hateful yet there's always one story each year that takes me by surprise on how dumb this place is.
This country is so dumb and hateful yet there's always one story each year that takes me by surprise on how dumb this place is.
You're free to practice Christianity or Catholicism or nothing. What more freedom do you want??
I lived in Alabama. My boss at the grocery store I worked at once told me "When they freedom of religion they were talking about freedom to be Christian without Church of England"
Of course! Anything else is bound to breed close-mindedness, cult-like behavior & practices, and terrorism. Unlike Christianity or Catholicism which has never been the driving ideology behind any backwards views or major, historical, inhumane atrocities
That's something so stupid, I totally expect to see it all over Fox News.
There is an actually an effort by Nerandra Modi to rebrand yoga to push Hinduism.
No if it's a international thing or even it had any success.
