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Judge showed ‘anti-Christian bias’ by upholding yoga classes in school: lawyer

Yoga in a public school’s fitness program does not amount to teaching children religion because despite its roots in Hindu philosophy it is part of American culture, a California judge ruled on Monday.

The ruling denied a request by a family in a San Diego suburb to ban the local school district from including yoga in physical education, arguing that it violated the First Amendment and separation of church and state.

tephen and Jennifer Sedlock and their two children sued the Encinitas school district earlier this year. Their lawyer, Dean Broyles, said the judge’s ruling was part of a broader bias against Christianity.

Yoga “is religious and has religious aspects,” Broyles said. “There is a consistent anti-Christian bias in these cases, and a pro-Eastern or strange religion bias.”