Multiculturalism Gone Awry

I believe our government was and should be driven by enlightenment Ideals and rationalism. However, over the last several years it seems like an ever-increasing element of our society wants to bring a theocracy to American. This trend is also extending throughout the world. European cultures have been bowing to pressures from those who, under the guise of multicultural principles, want the government to accept religious tolerance, which often violates what we have determined as basic human rights. In America, we have adopted Christian holidays, placed God’s name in the pledge of allegiance and adopted “in God we trust” on its currency. We require those who have been adjudicated to attend uniquely Christian programs. We give tax moneys to “faith-based” programs who have a specific religious agenda. Additionally, we have those exempting out of educational classes, mandatory immunizations, and other programs for religious reasons that are designed for the betterment of society. While some exemptions are justified, some place all of us at risk and often dumb down America.
In other countries, governments are swallowing religious tolerance to restrain investigations and allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and other forms of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Why are we allowing religious communities to force women to wear absurdly restrictive clothing, marry off young girls, use harsher cultural and religiously accepted forms of discipline? How far do we allow parents to indoctrinate their children on the fear of science, rationalism and working toward the best for a society?
We are moving back to the dark ages where radical religious groups using their own interpretation of religious holy books will rule the world.