State must protect children from religious zealotry

You may have heard of the Branch Davidian cult led by one David Koresh who believed himself to be its final prophet. Then again there was recently octogenarian Harold Camping, who broadcast on his Family radio that the world would end in March 2012 and reaped quite a tidy sum from gullible “fool-owners”.

There have been as many Doomsday purveyors as there are trick card players on a sunny market day. We grin and bear their shame and retractions when the sun comes right out the very next day, just as it has done for eons.