General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I think what you really mean is that Dave HAS seen the light. Here in Oz there appears to be a frightening trend for the government to be leaning towards the religious right,I say frightening because there are extremists among Christians and can be just as austere and dangerous as the Muslims.
I've said this before,children should not be subjected to religious indoctrination,in state schools especially,they should be left until they are at least 13 or 14,when they can make up their own minds. Teach them tolerance by all means but it doesn't need a religious dogma or superstition to achieve that. As for learning about other cultures we were always told about them,unfortunately it was the sanitised version,much the same as we were "educated" on our own national history.
I will agree with one thing and that is that a person's freedom of speech and expression should not be curtailed in deference to minority groups.