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Showing Original Post only (View all)Alabama Will Now Allow Yoga In Its Public Schools (But Students Can't Say 'Namaste') [View all]
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."
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Alabama Will Now Allow Yoga In Its Public Schools (But Students Can't Say 'Namaste') [View all]
underpants
May 2021
OP
Well, describing just how it should be practiced is way up there, too.
TreasonousBastard
May 2021
#1
If you ever want confirmation about what right-wingers REALLY mean by demanding "religious freedom"
Mad_Machine76
May 2021
#21