Bomboy is editor-in-chief of the National Constitution Center.

Should yoga sessions in public schools be subject to the same restrictions as religious ceremonies? A group of 60 Southern California parents thinks sothey want to pull yoga out of their school districts curriculum.

The yoga controversy is the latest twist on the contentious issue of anything having to do with religion in schools funded by taxpayer dollars.

In this case, a lawyer for the parents says yoga has ties to Hinduism and that there is no place for it in the Encinitas Union School District.

Theres a deep concern that the Encinitas Union School District is using taxpayer resources to promote Ashtanga yoga and Hinduism, a religion system of beliefs and practices, their attorney, Dean Broyles, told the North County Times, a regional newspaper.

The district has classes in nine schools and is reportedly set to receive a $500,000 grant from an Ashtanga yoga institute to expand the classes. Its superintendent has said he doesnt plan to stop the classes.

Broyles told ABC News that Ashtanga yoga is indeed a religious practice.

The poses and positions are acknowledged by Ashtanga and Hindi yoga as forms of worship and prayers to Hindu deities, he told ABC. They have a spiritual and religious meaning behind them.

Broyles said after doing his own research, hes convinced Ashtanga yoga in public schools is a constitutional issue.

We think that children are being used as guinea pigs, he told ABC. It would be like a charismatic Christian organization funding classes in worship and praise.

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