The freedom of religion is not our national glue.
The freedom of religion allows citizens of different and even opposing religious beliefs to practice what they will; but it doesn't bind the republic together. It gives freedom to disparate groups to follow their religious convictions, or to at least hand-in-hand with the freedom of speech to speak their religious convictions--even Dominionist ones; but, if we are honest, it doesn't unify the nation.
What can unify? What should be our national glue?
I think it is the concept of secular government that binds us, or should. To mix metaphors, secular government is the umbrella or over-arching concept above important rights such as the freedom of religion, and above differing religions among Americas...or for that matter above differing races of Americans, differing immigrant strains among us, differing generations among our citizenry, and differing socio-economic tiers. I don't believe allowing for the free practice of religion really does much binding of any kind except within each respective religious group.
An example, perhaps not a good one: if one is an atheist American, it is not the freedom of religion that binds you to, say, a moderate Protestant Christian...it is more likely to be a shared desire for a secular government that can, say, protect your freedom to worship or not as you choose. The same can be said for a conservative Southern Baptist and a Hindu, or any two Americans relative to faith: it is not that each American has the freedom to practice his or her faith that actually binds him or her together with another American of a different faith or no faith. The common ground for both of them to stand on is more likely to be--and should be--secular, Enlightenment-influenced representative democracy: the mechanisms that keep the civic square civil and open to all. I guess the tension arises when a group's religious beliefs--like those of the Dominionists--call for what is in effect the dismantling of that very same secularism so under-valued these days, and so important to the proper working of our republic.
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