Alabama un-bans yoga but still bans the word Namaste

[kage69]

Yoga fixes people and helps you live longer. With zero politics being involved.

American christianity pats you on the head and takes your money, all while supporting racist/fascist agendas and providing cover for sexual predators within their institutions.

I wasn't expecting Alabama to get over their fear of brown people exercise and things that work any time soon. They are very particular about what they adopt/appropriate, this is ain't no shofar people.

 

[Indus]

We should give greencards to 250 million Indians and relocate them all to alabama.

Then they'll really see the meaning of Namaste!

 

[Pohemi]

Isn’t it funny the party allegedly concerned about free speech and cancel culture literally wants to cancel free speech?

There has always been strong levels of hypocrisy and projection from conservatives and christians. It's all fine as long as it's their way; they're scared of anything different.

 

[woolfe9998]

Alabama House Votes to Overturn Ban on Yoga in Schools – But ‘Namaste’ Is Still Forbidden

The Alabama Board of Education voted in 1993 to prohibit yoga, hypnosis and meditation in public school classrooms

time.com

Yoga has been banned in Alabama schools since 1993 when the ban was pushed by conservative cancel culture.

To make the bill more palatable to anti-cancel culture conservatives, no foreign words can be used when describing yoga poses, and are banned from saying the greeting Namaste. And 25 voted against letting Yoga happen even still.

Talk about cancel culture.

The amusing thing about this is, that the modification actually reveals what the real reason was for the ban in the first place. It was never about the actual exercise. It was always about it's foreign character. "We don't want to teach our kids to say these words from countries with slanty eyed people in them! For that matter, can we just call it aerobics instead of yoga?"

 

[tweaker2]

Truth is that AL probably just made a clerical error as everybody knows that men want fat girls in yoga pants banned. Why just the other day while shopping at Walmart my eyes were forced to see such a thing and almost had a seizure.

Saw a pair of very sturdily built ladies exercise walking down the main drag of the street I live off of and lo and behold the sun was shining in a certain direction and the leotards they were wearing seemed to me to be stretched to very limits of their structural integrity in the area of their butts such that they were practically transparent to where skin tones were discernable. I'm certain they didn't know about how they were displaying their attributes in that manner and far be it for me to tell them about what I was seeing, so there I was having to deal with the mixed emotions of being concerned over their predicament vs lmao over the sight I can never erase from my mind.

 

[hal2kilo]

Too close to the Golden Rule? What's the frigging problem. Oh, it's from feriners (who don't believe in their fairy tale).

 

[tweaker2]

As witnessed over and over again throughout history, a religious belief system that is rigid and inflexible in its response to changes in the moral, ethical, cultural and technological advancements in our societies will attempt to isolate and insulate their followers from "those evil distractions" that cause their members to "lose their faith" and stray away from their path toward whatever rewards that are being prophesized in their afterlives.

Small wonder our religious fundamentalists and evangelists are under constant pressure from losing those folks who have adjusted and assimilated themselves to the changes being brought about by those "evil societal advancements" that threaten their authority, influence and financial dependence over their flocks.


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[MtnMan]

As witnessed over and over again throughout history, a religious belief system that is rigid and inflexible in its response to changes in the moral, ethical, cultural and technological advancements in our societies will attempt to isolate and insulate their followers from "those evil distractions" that cause their members to "lose their faith" and stray away from their path toward whatever rewards that are being prophesized in their afterlives.

Small wonder our religious fundamentalists and evangelists are under constant attack from not so much the people who have adjusted and assimilated themselves to the changes being brought about by those "evil societal advancements" that threaten their authority, influence and financial dependence over their flocks.

Many years ago, maybe late 70's, a high school friend opened a print shop in a nearby small town. When I had to visit customers in that town, I would often stop in for coffee and a visit for a break.

One day he was running a big job for the biggest church in town, a baptist church. He was printing it on 5 different colors of paper, from white, beige, yellow, orange, and red. They were dunning notices for parishioners that were not tithing their full 10%, and by the 5th notice, printed on bright red paper, they were verging on threatening.

 

[MrSquished]

The Bill to Unban Yoga is stalling due to conservative outrage

Alabama bill to allow yoga in schools stalls as opponents fear its ties to Hinduism | CNN

An Alabama bill that would reverse a 28-year ban on yoga instruction in public schools has stalled in committee after opponents claimed the practice would introduce Hinduism into public schools.

www.cnn.com

what a piece of shit party the GOP is.

 

[ch33zw1z]

The Bill to Unban Yoga is stalling due to conservative outrage

Alabama bill to allow yoga in schools stalls as opponents fear its ties to Hinduism | CNN

An Alabama bill that would reverse a 28-year ban on yoga instruction in public schools has stalled in committee after opponents claimed the practice would introduce Hinduism into public schools.

www.cnn.com

what a piece of shit party the GOP is.

Omfg what a bunch of snowflakes

 

[VRAMdemon]

Lol ... Citing fear of "Hindu indoctrination" .. wtf.

Touching your toes lets the devil in … er … the back door (or something like that).

#Murica

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

The people who claim to be oppsoed to cancelling stuff don't want to uncancel something they cancelled?

 

[VRAMdemon]

edit wrong thread