Appeals
court upholds ruling against lawsuit brought by family who claimed yoga
promoted Hinduism and inhibited Christianity
The Guardian, Associated Press, Saturday 4 April 2015
Yoga taught in a public school is not a gateway to Hinduism and does not violate the religious rights of students or their parents, a California appeals court has ruled.
A yoga class in Encinitas, California. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP |
Yoga taught in a public school is not a gateway to Hinduism and does not violate the religious rights of students or their parents, a California appeals court has ruled.
An appeal
court in San Diego upheld a lower court ruling that tossed out a family’s
lawsuit that tried to block Encinitas Union school district from teaching yoga
as an alternative to traditional gym classes.
“While the
practice of yoga may be religious in some contexts, yoga classes as taught in
the district are, as the trial court determined, ‘devoid of any religious,
mystical, or spiritual trappings,’” the court wrote in a 3-0 opinion.
Stephen and
Jennifer Sedlock and their two children had brought the lawsuit claiming yoga
promoted Hinduism and inhibited Christianity. They were disappointed with the
ruling and considering their options.
“No other
court in the past 50 years has allowed public school officials to lead children
in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to,
and worshipping the sun god,” attorney Dean Broyles said in a statement.
Paul V
Carelli IV, a lawyer for the district, said there were no rituals occurring in
the classroom and no one was worshipping the sun or leading Hindu rites. The
district said the practice was taught in a secular way to promote strength,
flexibility and balance.
Yoga is now
taught at schools across the US, but the district is believed to be the first
with full-time yoga teachers at all schools.
A
three-year grant from the KP Jois Foundation, a nonprofit group that promotes
Ashtanga yoga, provides twice-weekly, 30-minute classes to the district’s 5,600
students.
About 30
families opted out of the classes begun in 2011.
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