Here is an interesting followup to the Right To Ignorance story. It seems one of the mothers who fought the mandatory course on world religions is very upset about how her fight is being portrayed. She vehemently objects to the portrayal of it being a fight for the right to ignorance. Instead, it would seem she's fighting for the right of superiority of her beliefs over others...

we object to the fact that our youngest child, then aged 6, should be taught that all religions have the same value. I objected to the textbook my child had to use where all stories, be they Biblical (the Nativity), aboriginal (Big Hare) or animal tales (The Mice X-Mas), are told as tales of equal value and truth.

To me, ironically, this need for superiority comes from a fear born out of ignorance. I seriously doubt whether in these classes any of the various stories and beliefs from other religions are taught as being true. I would think the intent is to teach what each religion believes and leave it at that, so the objection to having them all taught as equally containing truths should be a baseless fear.

Another irony is I feel her objection is due to a lack of faith, faith in both her ability to properly indoctrinate her child and faith that her child can maintain the faith in light of exposure to other beliefs. So ok, she'll go along with having him hear these other beliefs but only if they're taught as inferior or untrue. Well how progressive of her not to be fighting for a right to ignorance! No, she just wants the right of religious superiority. When confronted with this on her blog, she amazingly claimed, "that's called Freedom of religion and belief." No ma'am, that's quite the opposite. That's wishing for the state, via the schools, to declare one religion superior to all others, which is an infringement upon the freedom of religion and belief for anyone who doesn't subscribe to that religion.

Clearly someone's right to ignorance has been indulged far too long.