Quit being so precious. Everyone who has danced to rumba while the singer sang about Chango was not participating in Santeria rituals. No more than I’m participating in Christian ritual when I say “Merry Christmas.” And both of those things are much more explicitly religious than American style yoga.

The poor maligned christian majority! How will they survive?

College Humor: If Ghandi took a yoga class

That’s how it works. If other people are allowed to do what they want, it’s an infringement on this family’s religious freedom. Don’t you understand?

I just wrote about this upthread! The school district should totally rename this, and preferable with a cute stretchy animal mascot! :-)

Yeah that's the thing. No one is ever telling THEM that they can't practice their religion, so they have to resort to frivolous lawsuits over a completely non-religious GYM CLASS which also happens to be OPTIONAL in order to get attention. If you have to reach that far to prove you're being persecuted, you're not! Oh…

i don’t think idols of Shiva are ‘religious baggage’, probably bc people aren’t studying the spiritual teachings of said god from the Vedas. Shiva is the first teacher of Yoga, so an idol of his makes sense, but isn’t Yoga ideally to be done outside, to the sun god? it’s a nice gesture, but that’s it, y’know? also idk…

From the below article: “The school system established its yoga program with a $500,000 grant from the K.P. Jois Foundation in the fall of 2012. The hope was that yoga would help the elementary school students focus on studies, keep them calm and even curb bullying.”

Yeah, but who is gonna save me from the evils of that hairstyle?

“What they describe as infringement on their rights is actually just functioning secularism”

That’s a fair point. American christians do not understand what real persecution looks like because they’ve been the powerful majority the whole time. What they describe as infringement on their rights is actually just functioning secularism, but they do not seem to understand secularism as a concept either.

Just a small correction: You’ve had it with AMERICAN Christians and their false sense of persecution. Christian students were gunned down in Kenya this week specifically for being Christian, so let’s not pretend that Christians aren’t still routinely persecuted all over the world. But, yeah, American Christians who…

my religious freedom is being attacked because there are other religions

Ha, CROSSfit. Teehee.

Because sky cake isn’t tasty unless the sky pie and the sky baklava people don’t get to have any cake.

Could they just rename it Stretchy Fun Time Class?

You trying to relate this issue to anti-vaxxer shit is ridiculous.

TL; DR.

Sup Bobby?! In a 100% non-snarky way, I’d like to give you some (totally unsolicited) Midweek Madness feedback. I’m a long-time reader and I am extra fond of this segment.

Yup. I don't have the family drama but I have plenty of other drama and definitely opinionated feminist so I'm not as easy to deal with as I seem to be. But I'm ok with that. I love my opinionated feminism.