Everyone Can Relax, Yoga Is Still Banned In Alabama, America Is Saved
Stretching? In OUR good Christian neighborhoods?! Nuh-uh, buddy!
It’s always good to see elected officials and civilians coming together to push for positive change, and focusing on issues that really matter.
This is not one of those times!
Earlier this week Alabama Rep. Jeremy Gray put forth Bill AL HB246, the purpose of this bill being to overturn a ban on yoga in public schools that has stood since in 1993. Let’s all take a deep breath in through the nose, out through the mouth, and then come to center to read that again.
Yoga has been banned in Alabama public schools since 1993
because — get ready for it —
that would promote Hinduism.
You’d think the folks who put that bill in effect and have been backing it all these years would be huge supporters of yoga, given how big of a fucking stretch that is. Doing yoga leads to Hinduism just as much as swimming leads to becoming a dolphin. Conservative groups in Alabama pushed back hard against this bill, with one arguing “If this bill passes, then instructors will be able to come into classrooms as young as kindergarten and bring these children through guided…
