I spend quite a bit of time in the Religion & Spirituality section of Yahoo!Answers, where people write in questions and other people (hopefully) give back helpful answers. My goal is to help share my knowledge with others, but periodically I find a question worthy of being blog fodder.
A Christian asked what she could do about the supposedly blatant religious discrimination being shown to her by a college professor who threatened to subtract points if she refused to attend a lecture on Wicca... in a comparative religions course. Since she disagreed with the practices of Wicca, she felt it went against her religion to even hear about it...
Read the entire blog entry at Alternative Religion on About.com.
Being a Christian is no excuse, she should attend. Maybe she'll find out what happened to all the witches and pagans after the Romans decided to force-feed the gregorian calendar and Christianity onto Europe.
I personally think it's a hoax. If you don't want to learn about other religions, why on earth are you taking a comparative religions course in the first place? It is exactly what it says on the tin!