won't there inevitably be a conflict someday between America's commitment to democracy and it's commitment to secularism and the separation of church and state?

I found this statistic in a poll from last summer: 58% of Americans would favor creationism being taught in school alongside scientific theories of evolution at public schools. (a whole range of evolution/creation polls can also be found here

58%!!

Do these people know that what they're favoring is tantamount to the complete undoing of the first amendment? Particularly if the 51% of the people who said this is an issue that should be decided on a national level get their way?

But, whether or not they know it, this view of education does challenge to the first amendment and it begs the question of what value Americans hold more dear: democracy or religious freedom. Does religious freedom need to bow the the will of the majority? Can it? Should it?