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| No Matter How U Spin It- Yoga comes from Hinduism |
The ruling denied a request by a family in a San Diego suburb to ban the local school district from including yoga in physical education, arguing that it violated the First Amendment and separation of church and state.
"Yoga as it has developed in the last 20 years is rooted in American culture, not Indian culture," San Diego Superior Court Judge John Meyer said. "It is a distinctly American cultural phenomenon. A reasonable student would not objectively perceive that Encinitas school district yoga advances or promotes religion."
Stephen and Jennifer Sedlock and their two children sued the Encinitas school district earlier this year. Their lawyer, Dean Broyles, said the judge's ruling was part of a broader bias against Christianity.
Yoga "is religious and has religious aspects," Broyles said.
"There is a consistent anti-Christian bias in these cases, and a pro-Eastern or strange religion bias.".
For the LORD has rejected his people, the descendants of Jacob,
because they have filled their land with practices from the East and with sorcerers,
as the Philistines do.
They have made alliances with pagans.
Isaiah 2:6
