A judge is allowing a San Diego-area school district to teach yoga, while rejecting a lawsuit filed by angry parents, who called it an effort to 'promote Eastern religion.'
Superior Court Judge John S. Meyer said in Monday's ruling that yoga is a religious practice, but not the way that it is taught by the Encinitas Union School District at its nine campuses, the New York Post reported.
Meyer said that the school district stripped classes of all cultural references including the Sanskrit language.
The judge claimed that the people opposing the yoga class were relying on information collected from the Internet and other unreliable sources.
In the lawsuit, an attorney for the parents, Dean Broyles, argued that the twice weekly, 30-minute classes are inherently religious, in violation of the constitutional separation between church and state.
The lawsuit, which did not seek monetary damages, asked the court to intervene and suspend the program.
