Pretty sure the Founding Fathers- a few of whom were vehemently anti-Christian- would foam at the mouth knowing the treatment religion gets in modern day America.

Infinity stars!

You know what else shouldn’t be tax exempt? Any church!

Because Christians insisted on it, and to not completely violate the Constitution, they also had to promise to let all the other religions take a turn at it if they wanted, because this certainly wasn’t a blatant attempt at shoehorning their personal religion into public political space!

Exactly. They totally fail to see that the so called “persecution” is self imposed. You cannot treat other religions like they are meaningless and shouldn’t be given a platform, get deserved pushback and then scream religious persecution. That’s not how it works.

Rep. Rob Taylor (R) attended, but turned his back during the blessing. This, he believes, is what Jesus would have done. “Jesus would be in the chamber, from my perspective. He would passively protest,” he told reporters.

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Can you imagine the calls of Christian persecution that would be made, had someone done this during a Christian prayer? The turning of the back especially.

God I love when they’re all directly confronted with what inclusion means. If you’re gonna let one religion in, you have to let them all!

While I agree with most of your statement, we live in a country where “crystal therapy” is a thing. Let’s just accept that “therapy” as a word sold out long ago.

I think their heads might actually explode.

It’s really not that hard a debate. Speech is speech. You have the right to free speech. Once you call something treatment and administer it as a professional, it is no longer just speech (even if the treatment involves you making words with your mouth). It’s proper to prohibit harmful treatments. It’s proper to…

Exactly. I look at it sort of like nutritional supplements: yes, they're crap science and there's a much greater chance they'll hurt than help, but adults can buy them and eat them and suffer the consequences if they want. Kids, though? Not a damn chance.

However troubling the regulatory scheme, my primary reaction to this news remains:

“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.

esp since yoga that has been exported to the west is so completely distilled that it doesn’t retain any of the religious baggage. it’s...exercise. pretty much.

Do these morons think that yoga studios are Hindu temples?

Of course not! Because Christianity is the “correct” religion!

Meanwhile, the schools around here offer Bible History as a related arts class and nobody is trying to sue...