I FIRST HAVE to say that I support Rep. Alonzo Baldonado, especially for having the courage to say something about that which offends him – especially where he believes it could affect his children.
In America, his right to express his faith beliefs needs to be protected and not demeaned as it was in the opinion letters written in the Sunday Journal.
His concern was that his children may be affected by the exercises based on yoga movements. Many opinion writers in the Sunday Journal sure seemed to demean his fears because they seem to feel their leftist world views are so much higher than Baldonado’s lowly Christian faith.
I am not sure, but that could be called bigotry?
That aside, I have to wonder where these people were when a pine tree, the Christmas tree, in the schools was so feared that exposure to it might lead children into church-controlled government, or worse have the children think about Jesus.
If exposure here is not allowed because they claim separation of church and state, why can’t a U.S. citizen, given his freedom of speech, express fear for his children about yoga-based exercises, which are religious-based, I think?
Here is the true Christian action by Baldonado when he showed his tolerance of yoga in schools: He did not run to the courts as intolerant left-wingers do when they find something offensive. He asked that children be allowed to be excused from having to perform the exercises and did not ask they be allowed to cut gym class or even request that yoga be removed altogether.
ART GARCIA
Albuquerque
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